Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service refers to storing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting provider. There are different classes of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a glance at these. In that way, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you wish to run a website, mail accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular hosts, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage solutions are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between separate bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given suppliers offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share an immense quantity of pictures with buddies or associates since the solution is generally free. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to administering your e-mails. Some distributors offer site hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to create a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can open email accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to manage as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to keep a website. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At LivingstoneIT Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific web content only.