Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes keeping and/or sharing certain content on a server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a glimpse at these. In that way, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to create a blog, mail aliases, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular firms, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages are often supported by exhibiting adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given period of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the workload between independent hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web page hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you wish to share a big number of pics with friends or partners since the service is commonly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your mail accounts. Some firms offer site hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you desire to manage an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to have as many videos as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to keep a website. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Trinidad Financial Hosting, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the common email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific web content exclusively.