Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to stashing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting company. There are different kinds of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a peek at them. In that way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you desire to launch a weblog, email aliases, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by particular file storage providers, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file storage services are frequently supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the tasks at hand between different bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web page hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a huge number of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mail aliases. Some vendors offer web site hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you want to manage an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many videos as you want to without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a web site. To some extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At SearchHook.host, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular web content exclusively.