Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service involves keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are various types of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a gaze at them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you'd like to own a website, email aliases, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given file storage providers, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are often supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, 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.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely fallacious interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the workload between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share a big amount of pictures with chums or associates since the service is commonly free of charge. You will receive a random 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 service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your email aliases. Some corporations provide web space hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you desire to create a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to operate as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to possess a website. To some degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email accounts, upload video clips, etc. At BlueStorm Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular web content exclusively.