Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service means saving and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting provider. There are various types of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a peek at these. In this way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to create a web page, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain web hosts, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the tasks at hand between different sets of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web space hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some providers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share a big quantity of pictures with buddies or associates since the solution is typically free of cost. You will get a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your email box accounts. Some distributors offer hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you would like to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open electronic mail accounts and administer 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 allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many video files as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to own a website. To some extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email addresses, upload video files, and so on. At GD Hosting, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared to the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular content exclusively.