Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various ends, so let's study these. In this way, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you'd like to have a web portal, e-mail aliases, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service provided by some web hosts, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage accounts frequently include adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the workload between different bunches of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share a vast amount of images with friends or partners since the solution is generally free of charge. You will get a random link for each and every pic 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 used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your email address accounts. Some suppliers offer web space hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you wish to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to use as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to have a site. To some degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, etc. At OzeVision Web Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for particular web content only.