Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution entails hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a web server administered by a hosting company. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's explore them. Thus, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to create a blog, mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by particular file storage providers, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list 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-of-cost file hosting packages are frequently supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the tasks at hand between autonomous groups of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web site hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some companies provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share a great number of images with buddies or partners since the service is usually free. You will get a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your email box accounts. Some providers offer webspace hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to manage as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to run a web site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At Softech Cloud Hosting, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific content only.