Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service is connected with storing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server hosted by a website hosting vendor. There are different categories of hosting services used for various aims, so let's survey these. Thus, you can pick what you need, based on whether you desire to own a weblog, email address accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain file storage providers, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inappropriate explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between separate stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web page hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given providers provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you would like to share an enormous quantity of pics with chums or colleagues since the service is usually free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your emails. Some firms provide hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution 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 some video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to utilize as many videos as you want without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a web site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Micurramba, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific content only.