Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web server run by a hosting provider. There are different classes of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a glance at them. In this way, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a blog, email address accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given web hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated 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 not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely inappropriate explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would split the load between separate stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various website hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share a big number of images with friends or colleagues since the service is generally free. You will obtain a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your email box accounts. Some companies offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you want to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video 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 file creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to use as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to run a web site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At MetroConnects.Net, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared with the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular web content exclusively.