Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's review them. Doing so, you can choose what you want, based on whether you wish to establish a web page, emails, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various hosts, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages frequently involve adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the workload between autonomous sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given companies provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you want to share a great number of images with friends or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to administering your mail aliases. Some suppliers provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to own as many video files as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to run a site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At Metz Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for specific web content exclusively.