Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns depositing and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are different categories of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's explore these. Thus, you can decide what you want, based on whether you desire to have a site, e-mails, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some vendors, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service 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 receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts frequently involve ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly wrong interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the tasks at hand between independent groups of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given vendors offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share an immense quantity of pictures with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will get a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to administering your e-mail addresses. Some companies offer web hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you desire to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to operate as many videos as you wish without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a website. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and emails, upload video files, and so on. At Bulldog Computers, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific web content only.