Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service entails saving and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server run by a hosting supplier. There are different forms of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a look at these. In this way, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you desire to create a blog, email box accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain companies, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file storage solutions are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely false interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the tasks at hand between separate packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a great number of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will obtain a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email box accounts. Some companies provide website hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to manage an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many videos as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to possess a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and emails, upload videos, etc. At FindYourDomainNow, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular content exclusively.