Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service concerns keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a web server managed by a hosting distributor. There are various categories of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's explore them. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to create a site, mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by given file storage providers, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roll 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-charge file storage accounts frequently involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given span of time to view 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 straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely imprecise explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the workload between independent packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various site hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share a huge quantity of pics with chums or colleagues since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your e-mails. Some corporations provide hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you would like to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many videos as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to own a site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email addresses, upload video clips, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific web content solely.