Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution applies to depositing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a peek at them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you desire to run a web portal, e-mails, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by given providers, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages often include ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely awry explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between individual hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various site hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given providers provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a big quantity of pictures with chums or associates since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to have as many video files as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to possess a site. To some degree, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At Loyalty Hosting, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular web content solely.