Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution applies to saving and/or sharing particular web content on a server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a gaze at these. Doing so, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you desire to run a web page, e-mail aliases, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by certain web hosts, which enables you to share big 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 aim is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inaccurate interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different site hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given providers provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a huge quantity of pictures with buddies or acquaintances since the service is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mails. Some suppliers provide site hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to run an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to keep as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At SSDD Hosting, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific content solely.