Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is associated with storing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting distributor. There are different types of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a peek at these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a web portal, email address accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service provided by some web hosts, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular spell of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted 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 restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the tasks at hand between individual packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a vast amount of pictures with friends or associates since the service is usually free. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

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

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Moore Hosting, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for specific web content solely.