What are Hosting Solutions?

A hosting solution entails saving and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server hosted by a hosting supplier. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's review these. Thus, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you desire to establish a web site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by certain vendors, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel web hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inappropriate interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud hosting system would assign the load between autonomous packs of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share an enormous amount of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to handling your email mailbox accounts. Some corporations offer hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you wish to possess an email address with your domain but do not wish to possess a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domain. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to keep as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a site. To some extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mails, upload video clips, etc. At Web Got Consulting you can take a gaze at shared hosting and dedicated server accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free web hosting package, a paid shared web hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular content only.