Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes hoarding and/or sharing particular web content on a web server handled by a hosting distributor. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different goals, so let's examine them. Thus, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you wish to build a weblog, e-mails, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given hosts, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting services frequently include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly awry explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the tasks at hand between separate stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share a vast quantity of images with comrades or associates since the service is typically free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to have as many videos as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to keep a website. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and emails, upload video clips, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for particular web content exclusively.