Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting distributor. There are different groups of hosting services used for different aims, so let's explore them. In this way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a web page, e-mails, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by certain hosts, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as 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 roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain interval of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits 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 vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web site hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting variant is good if you wish to share a huge amount of images with buddies or colleagues since the solution is generally free. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to administering your mail addresses. Some vendors offer website hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you desire to own a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open e-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 e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to utilize as many video files as you desire without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a web site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Tennessee Wireless Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific web content only.