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Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes stashing and/or sharing given web content on a server handled by a hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a glance at these. In that way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to build a website, email accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various web hosts, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans often involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely inapt interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the load between individual stacks of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific distributors provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a great quantity of pictures with friends or associates since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a random 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 utilized for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to have as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video files, etc. At Bandhost.com.au, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, 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 to the routine email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific content only.