Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution entails keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server hosted by a hosting company. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a look at them. Doing so, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to have a web site, email addresses, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by various hosts, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page 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 read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular stretch of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly mistaken explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between independent groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web site hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share an enormous number of pictures with mates or acquaintances since the service is typically free. You will receive a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your mailbox accounts. Some corporations provide webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email service. If you would like to set up an email address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web 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 files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many videos as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to have a site. To some degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At PJWebz, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for specific content solely.