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Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with hoarding and/or sharing certain content on a server hosted by a hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's survey them. In that way, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between independent sets of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share a huge quantity of pics with mates or acquaintances since the service is typically free of charge. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your mail accounts. Some corporations provide web site hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you would like to have an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many video files as you would like without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to run a web site. To some degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mails, upload video clips, and so on. At Getya Hosting, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the type 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 web site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the common email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for specific content solely.