Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a web server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a look at these. In this way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to have a web site, mails, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by various providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support website 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 view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the tasks at hand between separate stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different website hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given providers provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a great amount of pics with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to administering your mails. Some companies provide web hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to operate as many videos as you desire without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and emails, upload videos, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content only.