Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server administered by a web hosting provider. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's survey them. In this way, you can decide what you want, based on whether you wish to run a website, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution made available by given file storage providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once 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 roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limitations 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.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the workload between individual stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you desire to share an enormous quantity of pictures with mates or associates since the solution is generally free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your email aliases. Some suppliers offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you would like to create an email address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes 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 clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to utilize as many video files as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At InstaNorth Marketing, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular content solely.