Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution applies to saving and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server handled by a hosting company. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's examine these. Thus, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a website, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by particular web hosts, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inappropriate explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the tasks at hand between autonomous packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share a huge number of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mails. Some firms provide hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can create 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 servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to keep as many video files as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to possess a website. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific content only.