Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with keeping and/or sharing particular content on a server run by a web hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's take a gaze at them. Thus, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you wish to have a website, mail address accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some hosts, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services often include ads next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly erroneous interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different site hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share a great number of pictures with mates or partners since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your electronic mail accounts. Some providers offer web page hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to run as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a web site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, etc. At duohost.net, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limits based on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific content solely.