What Does Hosting Solutions Denote?

A hosting service pertains to storing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server managed by a hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a peek at them. In this way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a web page, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by given vendors, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created 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 browser. Free file storage packages are often supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel web hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely erroneous interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between different groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share a vast number of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your emails. Some suppliers provide hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you wish to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domain name. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many videos as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a web site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email accounts, upload video files, and so on. At IPguide you can view shared hosting and dedicated package accounts that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared web hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular web content only.