Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service refers to depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server managed by a hosting distributor. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a peek at these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you'd like to build a web site, email accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some firms, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, 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. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the workload between autonomous stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web space hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is good if you would like to share a large number of images with friends or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will receive a random link for 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 service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your e-mail addresses. Some companies provide hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you want to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many videos as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and mail addresses, upload videos, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for particular content solely.