Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service entails hoarding and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting supplier. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's survey these. In that way, you can decide what you need, based on whether you desire to have a web portal, mail aliases, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by certain hosts, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a given stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inapt interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allot the workload between separate sets of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a large amount of pics with mates or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your mail accounts. Some suppliers provide website hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you wish to open a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create email accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to run as many video clips as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to keep a website. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and email mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Smartway Hosting, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific web content exclusively.