Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to keeping and/or sharing given content on a hosting server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are different categories of hosting services used for various aims, so let's survey these. Doing so, you can elect what you need, based on whether you desire to build a web page, mail aliases, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by certain web hosts, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are often supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the tasks at hand between autonomous stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web page hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some companies provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you desire to share an enormous number of pics with mates or associates since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to handling your mails. Some providers provide web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you desire to possess an email address with your domain name but do not want to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with several video files and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to run as many video files as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to have a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mail box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At 4 Web Host, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content exclusively.