Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to hoarding and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are various groups of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a gaze at them. In this way, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you desire to run a website, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various hosts, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inapt interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the tasks at hand between autonomous bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different webspace hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you wish to share an enormous amount of images with pals or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mail aliases. Some companies offer webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email service. If you wish to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many videos as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to have a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular content exclusively.