Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to stashing and/or sharing certain content on a server handled by a web hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's examine them. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to have a website, mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by some vendors, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely mistaken interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between independent sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different webspace hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some providers offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share a great quantity of images with pals or associates since the service is mostly free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your mails. Some firms offer web space hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email service. If you desire to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your website hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to keep as many video files as you want without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a web site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email addresses, upload video clips, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific content only.