Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution appertains to depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web server run by a website hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's review them. In this way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to establish a web page, email aliases, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by various file storage providers, 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 sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between autonomous packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given providers offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share a large quantity of images with chums or acquaintances since the service is generally free. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your email addresses. Some firms offer hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an email service. If you want to set up an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some 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 in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to run as many video files as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At AIDA Host, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content only.