Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a server run by a web hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a glance at these. In this way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you desire to build a weblog, e-mail accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely distorted interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the tasks at hand between autonomous packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share a vast number of images with comrades or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will get a random link for each and every image 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 websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mail addresses. Some vendors provide web space hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an email service. If you wish to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open email 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to manage as many videos as you would like without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to have a website. To some degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Fast Tuna Web Hosting, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for particular web content exclusively.