Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are various kinds of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can determine what you want, based on whether you'd like to launch a web page, mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by particular hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages often involve ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inapt explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between different sets of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web space hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some suppliers provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a huge amount of pictures with chums or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to managing your e-mail addresses. Some vendors provide web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to keep an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to run a site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At Carlisle Printing, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for specific web content exclusively.