Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is associated with stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting distributor. There are various groups of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a glance at them. Thus, you can determine what you want, based on whether you desire to build a web site, mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular hosts, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting plans are often supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the workload between individual stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different site hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given providers provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is good if you want to share a vast number of images with friends or associates since the service is usually free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mail aliases. Some companies offer web hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to administer as many videos as you want without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to run a website. To some degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and emails, upload video files, etc. At MarbleHost.com, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific content exclusively.