Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with depositing and/or sharing particular content on a web server handled by a web hosting provider. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's survey these. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to own a blog, mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution made available by given hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting packages often involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific interval of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, 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 retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely false explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the load between independent bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web site hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share a huge quantity of images with friends or associates since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture 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 pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to administering your mail accounts. Some firms offer web space hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you desire to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to use as many videos as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a site. To some extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email box accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At eGeekMD, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse compared with the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific content solely.