Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution appertains to stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting vendor. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's explore them. Thus, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you'd like to set up a site, e-mails, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by various firms, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file storage packages are frequently supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own 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 restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely improper interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between autonomous packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different web site hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some firms offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a big amount of pics with chums or associates since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image 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 sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your e-mail box accounts. Some distributors provide website hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you would like to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service 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 some video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to administer as many video files as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a website. To some extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Cloud Experts, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for specific content exclusively.