Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service refers to saving and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting company. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's survey these. Doing so, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you'd like to set up a web page, e-mails, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by given vendors, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely erroneous interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between different hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a variety of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you want to share an immense number of pics with pals or colleagues since the service is commonly free of cost. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to managing your e-mail addresses. Some corporations offer web hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to use as many video clips as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to have a website. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At 9 Cube Hosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for particular content only.