Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service refers to stashing and/or sharing particular content on a web server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are various varieties of hosting services used for various ends, so let's examine these. Thus, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you desire to establish a blog, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by various hosts, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage services are often supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess 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.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally untrue explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the workload between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web space hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a huge quantity of pics with friends or acquaintances since the service is typically free of charge. You will obtain a random link for every pic 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 used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your e-mail addresses. Some vendors offer web hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to manage an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to operate as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to run a website. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At ROSA HOSTING, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific web content exclusively.