Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a web server run by a website hosting company. There are different classes of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a look at them. Doing so, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you desire to own a website, email address accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by various vendors, which lets you share enormous 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 aim is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage services are often supported by displaying advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely twisted interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between individual groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share a huge quantity of pics with buddies or associates since the service is commonly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your mail accounts. Some distributors offer website hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to possess an email address with your domain name but do not want to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create e-mail address 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to run as many video files as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and emails, upload videos, etc. At FAZ Hosting, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for specific content only.