Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution involves depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting distributor. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a gaze at them. In this way, you can choose what you need, based on whether you wish to run a blog, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain providers, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage solutions are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly wrong interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web page hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a vast quantity of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the service is generally free. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your mail address accounts. Some providers provide web page hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you want to set up an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to possess as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to have a web site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Keller Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content solely.