Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to saving and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server administered by a web hosting company. There are various sorts of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a look at these. In that way, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you desire to build a web portal, email address accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site 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 explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the workload between autonomous stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various site hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given vendors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a large number of images with pals or associates since the solution is typically free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for 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 dedicated to tackling your mail aliases. Some companies provide website hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you wish to get an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to operate as many video files as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to have a site. To some extent, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular content solely.