Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are different types of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's study them. In that way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you'd like to have a weblog, mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain 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 load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts often involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inapt interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between autonomous hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different webspace hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a type of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given providers offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting variant is good if you wish to share a vast quantity of pics with pals or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will get a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your emails. Some firms provide webspace hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to have 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 create email 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 videos. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to own as many videos as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, etc. At AdRhythm , for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular web content only.