Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a web server run by a hosting company. There are different types of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a peek at them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you wish to launch a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some vendors, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer 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 register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between different packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various webspace hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given companies provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a vast amount of pictures with chums or acquaintances since the service is usually free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mail aliases. Some distributors offer web space hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you desire to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to keep as many videos as you would like without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular content only.