Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server run by a hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can decide what you want, based on whether you desire to establish a blog, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various hosts, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a register 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 file storage plans often include advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the workload between separate sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various website hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a large amount of pics with comrades or colleagues since the service is commonly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image 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 used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your email box accounts. Some firms provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you wish to own a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail 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 clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many videos as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to possess a web site. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail addresses, upload videos, and so on. At Patrol Bureau, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limitations based 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 site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for particular content solely.