Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server run by a website hosting vendor. There are various forms of hosting services used for various ends, so let's survey these. Thus, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you wish to own a web portal, emails, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution made available by certain firms, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function 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 examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans frequently include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly twisted interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the workload between individual packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a vast quantity of pics with comrades or partners since the service is typically free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your e-mails. Some distributors provide web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email service. If you desire to own a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many videos as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to own a web site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Wunder Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse compared to the standard email/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for particular web content solely.