Sorts of hosting solutions
A hosting service is associated with stockpiling and/or sharing given web content on a server administered by a web hosting distributor. There are different kinds of hosting services used for various goals, so let's survey them. In this way, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to build a web portal, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.
- File hosting: a solution supplied by various firms, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated 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 view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.
Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between different packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web page hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given providers provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share a huge amount of pictures with buddies or associates since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.
- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mail accounts. Some distributors offer hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to own a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.
- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to run as many video files as you desire without bothering about system resources.
- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting groups 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, etc. At Congo Num Host, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the type 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 package may be better or worse in comparison with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular web content only.