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Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution entails stockpiling and/or sharing certain web content on a server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's survey them. In that way, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to create a web portal, mail aliases, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various file storage providers, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting plans are often supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get 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.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would split the tasks at hand between independent hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you want to share an immense number of pics with comrades or partners since the service is usually free. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to administering your mails. Some vendors provide website hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you desire to get an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular 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 in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to own as many video files as you want to without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to keep a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At ITechnology, for example, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific content only.