Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution pertains to saving and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server managed by a hosting company. There are different groups of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you'd like to run a blog, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various companies, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are often supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the tasks at hand between independent packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given firms provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a vast amount of images with comrades or partners since the service is commonly free. You will get a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your email mailbox accounts. Some corporations offer website hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many video files as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to keep a website. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular web content solely.