Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution means stashing and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server hosted by a hosting provider. There are different types of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you wish to launch a site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by particular file storage providers, which permits 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 only aim is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly 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 load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file storage packages are frequently supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the load between independent hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web space hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting brand is good if you want to share an enormous number of pictures with comrades or partners since the service is usually free. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your email address accounts. Some suppliers provide web hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you desire to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to utilize as many video files as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to run a website. To some degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content exclusively.