Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service means depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting vendor. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's survey these. Thus, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a web page, e-mail aliases, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service provided by given vendors, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally awry interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the tasks at hand between separate stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web site hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain firms offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a vast number of images with friends or colleagues since the solution is generally free of charge. You will obtain a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some companies offer web site hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you wish to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service 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 particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many video clips as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to run a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email addresses, upload videos, and so on. At AIDA Host, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared with the routine email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular web content exclusively.