Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service is connected with stashing and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server run by a hosting provider. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's examine these. Thus, you can determine what you want, based on whether you wish to establish a web portal, email address accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some vendors, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer web 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 view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts are frequently supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the load between independent sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web space hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is good if you wish to share a great number of images with comrades or colleagues since the solution is usually free. You will get a random link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your email box accounts. Some companies provide site hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to open an email address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to own a website. To some degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, etc. At ProMaxHosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for particular content exclusively.