Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is associated with stockpiling and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services used for different goals, so let's examine these. In that way, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a weblog, mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by given hosts, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would apportion the load between separate sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain firms offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share an immense number of pics with pals or associates since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your mail address accounts. Some vendors offer web page hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email solution. If you want to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a website. To some degree, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and mailbox accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Digital Monkey, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular web content only.