Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to saving and/or sharing particular content on a web server managed by a web hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a gaze at these. Doing so, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you wish to create a website, mail aliases, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular firms, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting plans are frequently supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation when it comes 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 faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between autonomous hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web page hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given companies provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a huge amount of pics with pals or colleagues since the service is generally free. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your email accounts. Some firms offer webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to own as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to possess a website. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At AIDA Host, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific content solely.