Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is associated with storing and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting provider. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a glance at these. Thus, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you wish to set up a web page, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by some providers, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal 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 see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans often include advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inaccurate interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the workload between independent bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various webspace hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a large quantity of pictures with chums or partners since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email box accounts. Some providers provide website hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you would like to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to possess as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a website. To some degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mails, upload video files, and so on. At 1DUR Media, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific content solely.