Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are various categories of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a gaze at these. Doing so, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to own a web portal, email addresses, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular file storage providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting accounts are frequently supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inappropriate explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the tasks at hand between individual groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a huge quantity of images with comrades or colleagues since the service is generally free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your e-mail address accounts. Some suppliers provide webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. 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 utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to possess a site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email accounts, upload video files, etc. At Lonex, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular web content solely.