Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests saving and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server run by a web hosting distributor. There are different groups of hosting services used for various aims, so let's take a glimpse at them. Doing so, you can decide what you want, based on whether you wish to run a web portal, emails, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given firms, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution 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 obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans frequently involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly imprecise explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the load between autonomous packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share an immense quantity of images with pals or partners since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your mails. Some vendors provide site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you would like to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to keep as many video clips as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email addresses, upload video files, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared to the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for specific web content only.