Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes storing and/or sharing certain web content on a web server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to build a web page, email box accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by some vendors, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inaccurate interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the load between autonomous sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different site hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain suppliers provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a large quantity of images with comrades or partners since the solution is typically free of cost. You will get a random link for each 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 used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your mail address accounts. Some corporations provide website hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you wish to open an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mailbox 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many video files as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a website. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At LIVING-NETWORK, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the type 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 site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific content solely.