Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a server run by a web hosting vendor. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a peek at them. In this way, you can decide what you need, based on whether you'd like to run a website, email aliases, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service supplied by certain web hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services are often supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely imprecise explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the tasks at hand between different stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given firms provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share an immense quantity of pictures with pals or partners since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your email address accounts. Some distributors offer web space hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to run a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to have as many videos as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a site. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At Glomulser Web hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared to the customary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular content only.