Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution entails hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server handled by a web hosting distributor. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's review these. In that way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you wish to establish a web portal, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by various firms, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts often involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inappropriate interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the workload between individual stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share an immense amount of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the service is typically free of charge. You will receive a random 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 supported, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your e-mail box accounts. Some vendors offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email service. If you would like to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables 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 elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many videos as you want without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to have a web site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and emails, upload video files, and so on. At New Hosting Adamaco, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content exclusively.