Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service involves hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting provider. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a gaze at these. Doing so, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you wish to build a web portal, mails, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by particular companies, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services often include advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally amiss explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between autonomous groups of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share an enormous number of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every 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 utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your mail address accounts. Some companies provide hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to administer as many video clips as you would like without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a website. To some extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Joomla CMS Hosting, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared to the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific content only.