Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution pertains to depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different aims, so let's examine them. In this way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to have a website, e-mail addresses, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by certain hosts, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, 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.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incorrect explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the workload between different groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web space hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share an immense number of pictures with pals or partners since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to managing your mail accounts. Some corporations provide website hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you would like to get an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to run as many video files as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to own a website. To some extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At CrownHost, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for particular content solely.