Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to storing and/or sharing particular web content on a server handled by a hosting supplier. There are different groups of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can decide what you need, depending on whether you desire to run a web site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by various web hosts, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain spell of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web page hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a vast quantity of images with comrades or associates since the solution is generally free of cost. You will obtain a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your mail accounts. Some suppliers provide web page hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you desire to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to utilize as many videos as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to run a website. To some extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At New Zealand Web Hosting Services, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific web content only.