Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means hoarding and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server run by a website hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a glimpse at them. In this way, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to set up a blog, emails, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by certain hosts, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer website 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 a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific stretch of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, 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 merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allot the workload between independent packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some suppliers provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share a large amount of images with friends or colleagues since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your mails. Some suppliers offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email service. If you want to have an e-mail 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 address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to keep as many video files as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to keep a web site. To some extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email box accounts, upload videos, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular content only.