Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to saving and/or sharing specific content on a web server handled by a website hosting distributor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's examine these. Doing so, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you'd like to launch a web page, email box accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some web hosts, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance 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 denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different website hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share an enormous amount of pics with buddies or associates since the service is typically free. You will get a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to managing your email mailbox accounts. Some companies offer web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you desire to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to use as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to own a site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At BlueStorm Hosting, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for specific web content solely.