Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a web server hosted by a website hosting company. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's explore them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a web portal, emails, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain providers, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a table 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-cost file storage services are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inapt explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the workload between independent groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific providers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a huge amount of images with pals or partners since the solution is mostly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your email addresses. Some suppliers offer web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email solution. If you would like to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with several video files and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to utilize as many videos as you would like without worrying about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to possess a web site. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At Caucci Hosting, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific web content exclusively.