Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with storing and/or sharing given content on a web server run by a web hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's review them. Thus, you can decide what you need, based on whether you'd like to set up a web site, email box accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by some vendors, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, 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 support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages are often supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inappropriate interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between independent stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web page hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share an immense number of pics with pals or associates since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will receive 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 sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your mailbox accounts. Some companies provide site hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you would like to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a website, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to possess as many video files as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to run a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the usual email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular content solely.