Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a glimpse at these. In this way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you wish to launch a web portal, email box accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service supplied by various hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file storage services are often supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific spell of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely twisted explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between independent packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a large number of images with friends or partners since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your e-mail accounts. Some firms provide web page hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you want to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to run as many video files as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to run a site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and emails, upload video files, etc. At Grand Lex Design, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific web content solely.