Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are various types of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you desire to create a web page, e-mail accounts, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by some firms, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely unsuitable explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the workload between autonomous hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web page hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share an enormous quantity of images with mates or associates since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a randomly generated 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 compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some distributors provide hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email service. If you would like to launch an email address with your domain name but do not desire to own a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves 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 clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to manage as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to have a web site. To some degree, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Pasifika Technology, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific web content exclusively.