Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to saving and/or sharing given web content on a server run by a web hosting supplier. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's take a glimpse at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you'd like to create a blog, emails, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by certain companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain period of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the workload between separate hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web space hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some vendors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a great amount of images with comrades or associates since the solution is usually free. You will receive 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 web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your email accounts. Some providers provide hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you wish to own a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to have as many video files as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to keep a website. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific web content exclusively.