Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is associated with keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a glimpse at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you'd like to set up a blog, e-mails, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by particular file storage providers, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts frequently involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly wrong interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would split the tasks at hand between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various website hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share an immense quantity of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your mail accounts. Some vendors provide web space hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you would like to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to administer as many videos as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At sk24 Host, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for particular web content exclusively.