Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to keeping and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting provider. There are various categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you desire to set up a web site, email accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given hosts, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services often include ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly amiss interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between independent sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share a big number of pictures with chums or colleagues since the solution is commonly free. You will receive 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 compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to managing your e-mails. Some distributors provide web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to utilize as many videos as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a website. To some degree, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and emails, upload videos, and so on. At One Key Hosting, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific content solely.