Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution pertains to keeping and/or sharing given content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are various groups of hosting services used for various goals, so let's explore them. Doing so, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you'd like to own a blog, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service supplied by certain web hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are frequently supported by showing ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions 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.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would distribute the tasks at hand between different stacks of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given providers offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share an immense number of images with mates or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each 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 solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your email box accounts. Some companies offer web page hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you desire to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open mail 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to keep as many videos as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to own a web site. To some extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mails, upload video files, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the typical email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular web content exclusively.