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Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with stashing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server handled by a hosting supplier. There are different varieties of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a gaze at these. Thus, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to own a site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular firms, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support site 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 explore a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular period of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inappropriate interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would distribute the tasks at hand between different groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is good if you wish to share a large amount of pics with buddies or acquaintances since the service is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to handling your emails. Some vendors provide web site hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to have as many video files as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to possess a website. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific web content only.