Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies saving and/or sharing certain content on a server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's review them. In this way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to own a web portal, e-mail aliases, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain providers, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support website 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 examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are often supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, 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 present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally false explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between separate hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web space hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share a great number of pictures with pals or colleagues since the solution is usually free of charge. You will obtain a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email addresses. Some vendors provide site hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email 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 website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and a few hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to possess as many video files as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to possess a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, etc. At OmniComm Solutions, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular content only.