Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies keeping and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a look at them. In that way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you'd like to run a weblog, email aliases, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given web hosts, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by exhibiting adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inaccurate explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between autonomous hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share an immense amount of pictures with comrades or partners since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mail aliases. Some companies offer web space hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to operate as many video files as you wish without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mails, upload video clips, and so on. At Transforma Hosting, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the routine email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific web content only.