Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server hosted by a web hosting distributor. There are different groups of hosting services used for various goals, so let's survey them. In this way, you can elect what you want, based on whether you'd like to set up a blog, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by particular vendors, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain 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 view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage services often include ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly amiss explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the workload between individual sets of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share an enormous quantity of pictures with buddies or colleagues since the service is typically free. You will receive 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 solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your email mailbox accounts. Some corporations provide site hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. 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 using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to manage as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to run a website. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and electronic mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At Techpulse Ltd, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific content only.