Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies hoarding and/or sharing given content on a web server handled by a web hosting distributor. There are different varieties of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a gaze at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you desire to own a blog, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by particular vendors, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between autonomous groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you desire to share a huge number of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the service is generally free. You will get a random link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your e-mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer site hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you desire to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mail address 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to keep as many video files as you want to without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to run a website. To some extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At Baughman Hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular web content only.