Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution involves depositing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server administered by a web hosting vendor. There are different classes of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a peek at these. Doing so, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a web page, email aliases, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given firms, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are frequently supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly mistaken explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the workload between different groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a great quantity of pictures with comrades or associates since the solution is typically free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some companies offer webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to open a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to operate as many video files as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to own a site. To some degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email addresses, upload videos, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared to the routine email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for specific content exclusively.