Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution pertains to keeping and/or sharing given content on a hosting server managed by a hosting distributor. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a glance at them. In that way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to run a web site, e-mails, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service provided by certain file storage providers, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific period of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inapt interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between separate bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a huge amount of pictures with friends or partners since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will get a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer site hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you would like to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can set up email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to administer as many video files as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a site. To some extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mail address accounts, upload video files, etc. At JS Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular web content solely.