Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a server run by a hosting provider. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you'd like to establish a site, e-mails, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by some companies, which enables you to share huge 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 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 examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally false interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between autonomous bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web site hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share a big number of images with pals or colleagues since the service is typically free. You will get a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your e-mails. Some vendors provide hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an email service. If you wish to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to manage as many videos as you would like without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a site. To some extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At DMS Technologies Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific content exclusively.