Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns depositing and/or sharing certain content on a web server administered by a website hosting company. There are various varieties of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a peek at them. Thus, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to create a blog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by given file storage providers, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly 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 be unable to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are frequently supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the workload between individual bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some companies offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share an enormous number of pics with comrades or partners since the solution is typically free. You will get a random link for each and 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 tackling your e-mail aliases. Some companies offer web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to possess as many videos as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific web content exclusively.