Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution appertains to keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a glimpse at these. In that way, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you desire to have a blog, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some file storage providers, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage solutions are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit 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 stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allot the load between autonomous packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you want to share an enormous quantity of images with pals or colleagues since the service is usually free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to handling your mails. Some companies provide website hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you desire to run a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the email hosting solution 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 email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video, 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 clip generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to manage as many videos as you wish without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for particular web content only.