Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies hoarding and/or sharing particular web content on a server handled by a hosting distributor. There are different groups of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a gaze at these. In that way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to create a web site, email accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain firms, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage services often include ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific spell of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inapt interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would share the load between autonomous stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is good if you want to share an immense number of pictures with chums or colleagues since the service is generally free of cost. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to administering your email accounts. Some distributors provide web page hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to keep as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to keep a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At aBitHosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content solely.