Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's explore these. In that way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to own a web portal, email aliases, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between separate bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share a great number of pictures with buddies or partners since the solution is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to administering your e-mail aliases. Some suppliers provide web hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to own a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to manage as many videos as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to possess a web site. To some degree, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and emails, upload videos, etc. At TheEasyHost, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific web content solely.