Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means storing and/or sharing given web content on a server administered by a hosting provider. There are various types of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a peek at them. In that way, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you desire to create a web portal, emails, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by given hosts, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once 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 roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting services are often supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the tasks at hand between independent groups of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web page hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share an enormous quantity of pictures with buddies or colleagues since the solution is usually free of charge. You will receive 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 supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to handling your emails. Some suppliers offer site hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email solution. If you want to keep an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to have as many videos as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to have a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email aliases, upload video files, etc. At Free Hostia, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular web content exclusively.