Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service suggests keeping and/or sharing given content on a web server handled by a hosting company. There are various types of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can determine what you need, based on whether you'd like to run a site, mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular companies, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are frequently supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular stretch of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the workload between independent packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web space hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a huge quantity of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mail box accounts. Some providers offer webspace hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email service. If you want to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many videos as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to possess a website. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Chrisa, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for particular web content solely.