Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a glance at these. In that way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you wish to run a blog, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by particular firms, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roster 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 hosting accounts are often supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific spell of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit 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 faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely improper interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the load between separate packs of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share a huge amount of pictures with chums or partners since the solution is usually free of cost. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your e-mail aliases. Some corporations offer site hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to manage 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 require. You can create email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many video files as you would like without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to own a website. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email address accounts, upload videos, etc. At webgeardefault, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow 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 opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared to the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for particular web content solely.