Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a look at them. In this way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to launch a weblog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by given providers, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting plans often include ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the tasks at hand between independent groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous website hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some suppliers provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a big quantity of pictures with buddies or associates since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to administering your e-mail address accounts. Some providers offer website hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you want to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to keep as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to have a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At eSolution Hosting, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular content only.