Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting company. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's review them. Thus, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you wish to build a website, e-mail aliases, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution made available by various file storage providers, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions frequently involve adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally amiss interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between autonomous groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some companies provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you want to share a great number of images with chums or partners since the service is commonly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some companies offer web page hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you desire to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open email accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many video clips as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to run a web site. To some extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email addresses, upload video files, and so on. At Lim Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific content exclusively.