Types of hosting solutions
A hosting solution entails stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting company. There are various forms of hosting services used for various aims, so let's take a look at them. In that way, you can choose what you need, based on whether you wish to build a web portal, mail addresses, or to share files with chums and partners.
- File hosting: a service provided by particular companies, which lets you share bulky 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 goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting packages are often supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.
At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inapt interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the workload between separate packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web page hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given firms provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you wish to share a huge number of pics with friends or associates since the service is typically free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.
- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your electronic mail accounts. Some providers provide hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you would like to have a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.
- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to use as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system quotas.
- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to run a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content exclusively.