Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server managed by a hosting provider. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a glance at them. Thus, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a weblog, email addresses, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service provided by given providers, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inaccurate interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the workload between autonomous bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some providers provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a great number of pictures with pals or colleagues since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mailbox accounts. Some firms offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you want to have an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mail address 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mail box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Xpress Hosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular web content exclusively.