Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a web server managed by a hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's take a glimpse at them. Thus, you can decide what you need, based on whether you'd like to have a web site, email aliases, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular providers, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between separate hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given firms provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you desire to share an immense quantity of images with mates or associates since the solution is generally free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your email aliases. Some distributors offer web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you want to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to manage as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to have a web site. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mail box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Arious Digital, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for specific web content only.