Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service suggests depositing and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server run by a hosting distributor. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's review them. In this way, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you wish to own a web page, mail aliases, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various providers, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a given stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would apportion the tasks at hand between individual bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you wish to share a great amount of images with comrades or colleagues since the solution is usually free. You will receive a randomly generated 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 compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your e-mailbox accounts. Some providers offer website hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email solution. If you wish to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to utilize as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a website. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email aliases, upload video files, and so on. At TM Web Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular content exclusively.