Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service is connected with keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a glimpse at these. In that way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution offered by various companies, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are often supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely untrue explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between independent stacks of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given companies provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a large number of pictures with comrades or associates since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mail box accounts. Some distributors provide web site hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to have an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes 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 certain video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to administer as many videos as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to run a web site. To some extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mails, upload video files, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the standard email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific content only.