Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service involves hoarding and/or sharing particular web content on a web server hosted by a hosting provider. There are various classes of hosting services used for various aims, so let's review these. Thus, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a weblog, e-mails, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service delivered by given providers, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view 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-of-charge file storage services frequently involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly untrue interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would share the workload between separate stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given distributors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share an enormous number of pics with pals or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your e-mails. Some firms provide site hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an email service. If you desire to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can set up mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to administer as many videos as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a website. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At New Zealand Web Hosting Services, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for specific content exclusively.