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Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with depositing and/or sharing given content on a web server run by a website hosting supplier. There are various types of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a gaze at them. Thus, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you desire to have a blog, emails, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution made available by some file storage providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once 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 be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular spell of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the workload between different stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some companies provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a great amount of pictures with buddies or acquaintances since the service is usually free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each 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 websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email aliases. Some companies provide website hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to launch an email address with your domain name but do not want to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes 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 a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many videos as you want without worrying about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At ACORN IT, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for particular content only.