Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting supplier. There are different groups of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a look at them. In this way, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to have a web site, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain vendors, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting services frequently involve adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would assign the tasks at hand between different groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a great number of pics with comrades or partners since the service is mostly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mails. Some distributors offer webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to keep an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many videos as you want without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to have a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Sinaon Hosting, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular web content exclusively.