Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns storing and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's explore them. Thus, you can pick what you need, based on whether you wish to run a web portal, emails, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by certain web hosts, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the tasks at hand between independent bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different web hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a great amount of pictures with buddies or colleagues since the service is usually free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your email address accounts. Some distributors offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you desire to have an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to operate as many videos as you desire without hassling about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video clips, etc. At New Zealand Web Hosting Services, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific web content only.