Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server handled by a hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's review them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to create a web page, e-mail addresses, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various vendors, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services frequently include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the workload between separate hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web page hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a huge amount of images with chums or partners since the service is typically free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your email mailbox accounts. Some distributors provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to run an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many video clips as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to possess a web site. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At SKC Hosting, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for particular web content solely.