Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service concerns keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a server hosted by a hosting company. There are various classes of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a look at these. Thus, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you'd like to create a web page, email addresses, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given file storage providers, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose 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 generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would distribute the load between individual stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a big quantity of pics with buddies or partners since the solution is mostly free. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to tackling your mail accounts. Some distributors provide webspace hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you desire to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to run as many video files as you want without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular content solely.