Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a web server hosted by a web hosting distributor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's take a gaze at them. In this way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by particular file storage providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly erroneous interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the tasks at hand between independent groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share a large quantity of pictures with mates or associates since the service is mostly free of cost. You will get a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many videos as you would like without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to keep a website. To some degree, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and emails, upload video clips, and so on. At BIONECLICK, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared with the standard email/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for specific web content only.