Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means saving and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a glance at these. Thus, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to set up a website, mail addresses, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular vendors, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the tasks at hand between individual hosts of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some companies offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a huge amount of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the service is typically free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some providers provide web page hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many videos as you would like without hassling about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to have a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Speedy Mice, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific content only.