Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies depositing and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting company. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a glimpse at them. In that way, you can elect what you want, based on whether you wish to set up a site, mail aliases, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by various web hosts, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular interval of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between individual groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different website hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share a big quantity of images with mates or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your mail aliases. Some corporations provide hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you want to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to run as many videos as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and emails, upload videos, etc. At ROSA HOSTING, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content exclusively.