Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service concerns saving and/or sharing given web content on a server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services used for various ends, so let's study them. Thus, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to create a website, email accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution made available by certain companies, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions often involve ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy 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 with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the workload between autonomous packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a vast amount of images with chums or partners since the service is generally free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to tackling your mail aliases. Some corporations provide site hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to own as many video files as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to have a site. To some extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be limits based on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the routine email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content only.