Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution appertains to hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a web server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a look at these. In this way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a site, mail aliases, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by given providers, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages often involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the load between autonomous groups of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share an enormous quantity of pics with friends or colleagues since the service is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email aliases. Some distributors provide web hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to open a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to manage as many video files as you would like without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to have a web site. To some extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At GoKookyGo Hosting, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for particular web content exclusively.