Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns saving and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different aims, so let's explore these. In this way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a blog, mails, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution made available by some hosts, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting packages are often supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given span of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely false interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would split the tasks at hand between independent stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different webspace hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a great quantity of pics with comrades or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture 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 websites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to have as many video files as you want without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a website. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and email addresses, upload videos, and so on. At NETHOST23, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular web content exclusively.