Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to storing and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's examine them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you desire to own a site, email box accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by given web hosts, which permits you to share huge 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 objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment 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 record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file storage solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between independent groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share a vast amount of images with pals or colleagues since the service is generally free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your e-mails. Some suppliers provide website hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email service. If you desire to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to manage as many video files as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a site. To some extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email box accounts, upload videos, etc. At LuisArts Network, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific web content solely.