Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution applies to keeping and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server run by a hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a gaze at these. Doing so, you can choose what you need, based on whether you wish to set up a site, e-mails, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain companies, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer website 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 register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services often include adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly imprecise explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between different bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some companies offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a large amount of pics with friends or acquaintances since the service is generally free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each 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 used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to handling your mail addresses. Some vendors provide web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an email service. If you would like to get an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create email accounts and manage 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 permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to use as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to own a website. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At Websoes, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for specific content only.