Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a peek at these. Doing so, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to run a site, email addresses, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by some file storage providers, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are frequently supported by showing ads next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between separate groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share an immense amount of pictures with comrades or associates since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to administering your email aliases. Some firms provide web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to launch an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to own as many videos as you would like without hassling about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a site. To some extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At AzureVantage, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific web content only.