Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with saving and/or sharing given content on a web server handled by a web hosting company. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a peek at these. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a web portal, e-mail addresses, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various firms, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the tasks at hand between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various webspace hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain suppliers provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share a great quantity of images with buddies or colleagues since the service is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to handling your mail address accounts. Some providers offer site hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you would like to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many video files as you would like without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email box accounts, upload video files, etc. At AND-GATE, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for specific web content only.