Web Hosting Solutions Uncovered

A web hosting solution means stashing and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's explore these. Doing so, you can determine what you want, based on whether you desire to run a site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are often supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel web hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud web hosting". This is a totally mistaken interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud web hosting platform would distribute the workload between autonomous bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given firms provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a huge quantity of pics with mates or partners since the service is typically free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your email mailbox accounts. Some providers offer web hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you desire to get a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail web hosting solution is what you require. You can open e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domain. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to have a site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At The Host Office you can observe shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of web hosting service that you've settled on - a free web hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS web hosting or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular web content only.