Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes saving and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a gaze at them. Thus, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to build a weblog, e-mail aliases, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain providers, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file storage packages frequently involve adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between separate packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web page hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share a big number of images with buddies or associates since the service is commonly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each image 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 used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mailbox accounts. Some suppliers provide website hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email solution. If you would like to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and a few hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many video files as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to run a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At AWC Web Services, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular web content only.