Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution pertains to saving and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server run by a web hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a glimpse at these. In this way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you wish to own a blog, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by given companies, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register 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 storage solutions often include ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between separate stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web space hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share an immense amount of pictures with comrades or partners since the service is commonly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you would like to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create e-mail box 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 service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to run as many videos as you want without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mailbox accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific web content exclusively.