Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies stockpiling and/or sharing given web content on a server administered by a hosting distributor. There are various sorts of hosting services used for various goals, so let's survey them. Thus, you can choose what you need, based on whether you'd like to create a web page, mails, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by some web hosts, which permits you to share immense 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 goal is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts often involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allot the workload between different bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a big amount of images with buddies or associates since the service is usually free. You will obtain a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your email mailbox accounts. Some companies offer web site hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email service. If you would like to have an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your website 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 generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to have as many videos as you would like without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to possess a site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At SupremeServer Hosting, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for particular content exclusively.