Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service applies to hoarding and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server run by a website hosting supplier. There are various sorts of hosting services used for various goals, so let's study these. Doing so, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a website, mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service made available by some web hosts, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages frequently involve ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would share the tasks at hand between different bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some providers offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share a big number of pics with mates or colleagues since the solution is usually free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your electronic mail accounts. Some corporations provide webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email service. If you would like to own an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to keep as many videos as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At REVOTECH hosting, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific content solely.