Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service suggests stashing and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's examine them. In this way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a web site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by various firms, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally incongruous explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the tasks at hand between individual sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given suppliers offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share a big number of images with friends or partners since the service is mostly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your mails. Some providers offer web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open email 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 file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a web site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At YSNL2, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular web content exclusively.