Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a web server handled by a web hosting distributor. There are various groups of hosting services used for various ends, so let's study these. Thus, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by some vendors, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated 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 load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are often supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase 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 with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely amiss interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the workload between different bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share a great number of images with buddies or colleagues since the service is typically free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every image 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 used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your email aliases. Some suppliers offer site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you would like to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to keep as many videos as you want to without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a web site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for particular web content exclusively.