Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a server administered by a website hosting company. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's study them. Doing so, you can determine what you want, based on whether you desire to run a blog, mail addresses, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by certain providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely erroneous interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would apportion the workload between separate packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a great number of pics with friends or associates since the service is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to administering your email addresses. Some distributors offer web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up email accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to run as many videos as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a web site. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mails, upload video clips, etc. At AB3 WEB, LLC, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular content solely.