Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to stashing and/or sharing specific content on a server run by a hosting vendor. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a look at these. Thus, you can decide what you need, depending on whether you desire to own a site, email addresses, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various firms, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would distribute the load between separate stacks of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different site hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific suppliers provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share an enormous quantity of pictures with chums or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of cost. You will get a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mail accounts. Some distributors offer web site hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to use as many videos as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to own a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for particular content exclusively.