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Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with keeping and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting vendor. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's take a look at these. In this way, you can pick what you want, based on whether you desire to build a web page, mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by certain providers, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific period of time to perceive 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 immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely amiss explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between individual groups of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different website hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some companies provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a vast number of pictures with pals or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mail addresses. Some companies offer web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you wish to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage 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 few videos and several hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to use as many video clips as you want without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Universal-Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific content solely.