Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns saving and/or sharing given content on a web server handled by a web hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a glimpse at these. In this way, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you wish to run a web site, email box accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by given web hosts, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular spell of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the load between separate stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share an immense quantity of images with pals or partners since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mail accounts. Some suppliers provide web page hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you desire to manage an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to manage as many video files as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a site. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email aliases, upload video files, and so on. At TNL Cloud Hosting, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular content solely.