Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes saving and/or sharing specific web content on a web server administered by a web hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's take a look at them. Thus, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you wish to launch a blog, emails, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by particular vendors, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services often involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between independent sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a large number of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your email accounts. Some distributors provide website hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email service. If you would like to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create e-mailbox 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 permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to keep as many videos as you would like without bothering about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and emails, upload videos, and so on. At 1st Hosting, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific content solely.