Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes stashing and/or sharing given web content on a server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are various classes of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a glimpse at these. Thus, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to own a site, email accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by given vendors, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts are frequently supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given interval of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits 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.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the workload between autonomous hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a huge number of pics with pals or associates since the service is generally free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mail box accounts. Some companies provide web hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with several video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to own as many video files as you desire without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and emails, upload video files, and so on. At Loyalty Hosting, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific content only.