Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a web server hosted by a web hosting company. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a glance at these. In this way, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a web portal, email address accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular file storage providers, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally mistaken interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between autonomous groups of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different site hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you want to share a vast amount of pictures with comrades or partners since the service is typically free of charge. 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 service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mail aliases. Some providers provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email service. If you want to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mailbox 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 service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to manage as many videos as you would like without hassling about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a website. To some degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and emails, upload videos, etc. At Snaphost Web Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular content exclusively.