Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution involves stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a look at them. Thus, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you'd like to own a web portal, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by particular hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely unsuitable interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between autonomous sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different site hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a vast amount of images with friends or partners since the service is usually free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your e-mail aliases. Some distributors provide hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you want to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to utilize as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to own a site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Lime Server, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for specific web content only.