Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution involves storing and/or sharing given content on a hosting server managed by a hosting distributor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a gaze at these. Doing so, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you wish to create a web page, mail accounts, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by some web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose 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 read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage services often involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between different groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share an enormous quantity of images with buddies or colleagues since the service is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to managing your mailbox accounts. Some distributors offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to own as many video files as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to own a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At Mirror Impact Web Hosting Solutions, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for specific web content exclusively.