Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution pertains to hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting distributor. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a peek at them. Thus, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to build a blog, mails, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service furnished by particular web hosts, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site 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 examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts frequently include adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, 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.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely amiss interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between separate hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you want to share a great amount of pics with friends or partners since the solution is usually free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and 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 utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your email aliases. Some distributors provide website hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video clips as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to own a site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At Blue Point Host, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared to the standard email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular web content exclusively.