Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution pertains to saving and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's survey them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you desire to run a web page, mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by given file storage providers, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage plan, there are no limits 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 help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally imprecise explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between autonomous stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given corporations offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share an immense quantity of images with chums or partners since the solution is commonly free. You will get a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to tackling your email aliases. Some corporations provide site hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email solution. If you desire to own an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to utilize as many videos as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a site. To some extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific content solely.