Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to hoarding and/or sharing specific content on a server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a peek at these. In that way, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a site, email accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web site 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 register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally incongruous explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the tasks at hand between individual sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various website hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific providers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share a huge quantity of pics with mates or colleagues since the solution is mostly free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your mailbox accounts. Some suppliers provide webspace hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you would like to have a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to operate as many videos as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mails, upload video clips, and so on. At Unilakes Cloud, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the type 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 web space hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular content solely.