Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies storing and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are different forms of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a gaze at them. In that way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a site, email aliases, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by some companies, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans frequently involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely imprecise interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between individual groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web page hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a huge amount of pictures with mates or colleagues since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to tackling your mail aliases. Some corporations offer web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you wish to run a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can set up mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to run as many video files as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a web site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At Hawkeye Bargains Web Hosting, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific content exclusively.