Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting company. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a look at them. In this way, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a web site, mail address accounts, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by some file storage providers, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage plans are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely false interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the tasks at hand between independent groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share an enormous amount of pics with pals or associates since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer site hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many videos as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to keep a website. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Heartland Web Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for specific content exclusively.