Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns keeping and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server administered by a hosting provider. There are different forms of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a glance at these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a blog, e-mail aliases, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution made available by some providers, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective 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 created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions frequently include adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely imprecise explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between autonomous sets of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you wish to share an enormous quantity of pics with chums or partners since the service is typically free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each 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 service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some companies offer site hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to own a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to possess as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a web site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared to the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content solely.