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Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes saving and/or sharing particular web content on a web server run by a hosting supplier. There are different forms of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a gaze at these. Thus, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to launch a web page, mail addresses, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by some vendors, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as 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 roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, 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.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely improper explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the load between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some providers provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a huge number of pics with buddies or colleagues since the solution is generally free. You will obtain a random link for each 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 websites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to utilize as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to have a website. To some extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video files, etc. At NewHost Global, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for specific web content only.