Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting vendor. There are various types of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a look at these. Doing so, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a web site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various providers, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created 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 open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions often include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would apportion the tasks at hand between independent packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific providers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share a vast number of images with buddies or colleagues since the service is typically free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for every image 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 websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some distributors offer web space hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many video clips as you want without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to possess a site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular web content only.