Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a web server handled by a web hosting provider. There are various classes of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a peek at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, based on whether you'd like to establish a web portal, mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service delivered by particular providers, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions are frequently supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the workload between individual hosts of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share a large amount of images with comrades or colleagues since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to administering your e-mail box accounts. Some suppliers provide site hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you desire to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to have as many video files as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At LiveFrog, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular web content only.