Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to saving and/or sharing certain content on a web server managed by a website hosting provider. There are various varieties of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a peek at these. Thus, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to own a web page, email accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by some companies, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are often supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would share the workload between individual groups of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various website hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given vendors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a vast amount of images with pals or associates since the service is commonly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your mailbox accounts. Some companies offer webspace hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to set up an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open email accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to keep as many video files as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, etc. At Mussagi Hosting, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for particular web content exclusively.