Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution involves hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a server handled by a web hosting vendor. There are various forms of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a peek at these. Thus, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you desire to own a website, mail accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given providers, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services frequently include ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly erroneous interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the load between different packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share a great number of pictures with mates or partners since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your email aliases. Some firms provide web site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you desire to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to have as many video files as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At CyberRoute.net, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content solely.