Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies keeping and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services used for different ends, so let's study these. Doing so, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to establish a weblog, e-mail aliases, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some hosts, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are often supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the tasks at hand between independent groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web site hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a big quantity of images with pals or partners since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your mail accounts. Some corporations offer web site hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you desire to create an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to keep as many videos as you desire without hassling about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to possess a site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and email box accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At AWC Web Services, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting services that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific web content solely.