Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a web server managed by a hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's take a peek at them. In this way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to create a web page, email addresses, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by various file storage providers, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts frequently involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share an immense amount of pics with friends or partners since the service is generally free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your electronic mail accounts. Some suppliers offer web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to get an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to operate as many video clips as you want without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a site. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and emails, upload video files, etc. At Blue Gel Media, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for particular content only.