Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server administered by a web hosting distributor. There are different types of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a glance at them. In this way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to set up a web site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by some file storage providers, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web site 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 see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are frequently supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly twisted interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the workload between independent sets of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web space hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share a huge number of images with buddies or colleagues since the service is commonly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every image 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 utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to tackling your electronic mail accounts. Some suppliers provide webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to open a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to manage as many video files as you want to without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to have a website. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At Electro-Host, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for specific content solely.