Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests depositing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a peek at these. Doing so, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a blog, e-mails, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some file storage providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting packages often involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain period of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, 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 trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incorrect explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the workload between separate bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share an enormous number of pictures with pals or associates since the service is typically free. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your e-mail address accounts. Some suppliers offer website hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you would like to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can open email address 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to manage as many video clips as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a website. To some extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email addresses, upload videos, and so on. At Montevity Web Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular content exclusively.