Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes storing and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's survey them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you wish to build a web site, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various providers, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective 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 read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage plans are often supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would split the tasks at hand between autonomous bunches of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some providers provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share an immense quantity of images with friends or colleagues since the solution is typically free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to possess as many video clips as you would like without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to possess a website. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At Angry Dog Hosting Company, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular content only.