Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes stashing and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server run by a hosting company. There are various types of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a look at these. Thus, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a website, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by particular web hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage services are often supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain period of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly amiss interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the load between independent hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a big quantity of images with mates or colleagues since the solution is generally free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic 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 web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to possess as many video files as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to run a site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At Zzyb Design, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the customary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific web content exclusively.