Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service concerns hoarding and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting distributor. There are various groups of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a glimpse at them. In that way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to own a blog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various companies, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions are often supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely twisted explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would share the load between separate stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web site hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some companies provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share an immense number of images with pals or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to handling your mail aliases. Some firms provide web hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you would like to open a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to run as many video files as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a web site. To some degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email addresses, upload videos, etc. At AIDA Host, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific web content solely.