Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution entails keeping and/or sharing particular content on a server hosted by a website hosting vendor. There are various types of hosting services used for various aims, so let's take a peek at them. In this way, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you'd like to establish a web portal, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts frequently include ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally inappropriate explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between different bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web space hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given distributors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share an enormous number of images with pals or associates since the service is typically free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mail box accounts. Some distributors provide web hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email service. If you would like to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. 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 advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to operate as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to have a web site. To some extent, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At EuropeHosting.com, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for specific web content only.