Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes saving and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services used for different goals, so let's review these. Thus, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to create a blog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by particular companies, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer site 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 read a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions frequently include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the workload between autonomous packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web site hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you want to share a big number of pics with friends or colleagues since the service is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for 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 service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to managing your email addresses. Some corporations offer site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email solution. If you would like to run an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to utilize as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to possess a site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific web content solely.