Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to depositing and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services used for various ends, so let's explore them. Doing so, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to create a web site, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by some vendors, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly twisted interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between independent sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share an enormous amount of pics with mates or colleagues since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your electronic mail accounts. Some providers offer webspace hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to open an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to utilize as many videos as you would like without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to have a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Fieck Hosting, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content solely.