Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to saving and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting vendor. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's take a gaze at these. Thus, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to run a web site, email box accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by particular companies, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages are frequently supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between different sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web site hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given firms provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share an immense number of pics with comrades or associates since the service is typically free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your e-mail box accounts. Some vendors provide site hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can create e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many videos as you want to without worrying about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to keep a site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and emails, upload video clips, etc. At Zantezuken Hostings, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for particular web content exclusively.