Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a glimpse at them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a site, email addresses, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service provided by particular file storage providers, which permits 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 sole function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated 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 see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage solutions often include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely false explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the load between independent stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web page hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific suppliers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a large amount of images with chums or colleagues since the solution is mostly free. You will receive a randomly generated 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 used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your mail address accounts. Some vendors provide web hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you would like to own a mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to operate as many video files as you want to without bothering about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to have a web site. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific web content solely.