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Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes saving and/or sharing specific web content on a server handled by a hosting provider. There are different classes of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a website, e-mail accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution provided by certain file storage providers, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage services often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given span of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely amiss explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the load between separate packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given companies provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is good if you desire to share a huge number of images with chums or partners since the solution is commonly free. You will get a random link for each 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 service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your mails. Some suppliers provide webspace hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you want to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to possess as many video clips as you would like without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to keep a website. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Bald Guy Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content only.