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Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution appertains to stashing and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server managed by a hosting supplier. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a glance at these. In that way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you desire to establish a weblog, mail accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some providers, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a register 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-of-cost file hosting services are often supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inaccurate explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would split the tasks at hand between different bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting brand is good if you desire to share an enormous amount of images with mates or partners since the solution is typically free. You will obtain a random link for each and every 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.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your email address accounts. Some providers offer site hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you wish to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web 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 videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to manage as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a website. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At JDL-Erie, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the typical email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific content only.