Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services used for different goals, so let's explore them. In that way, you can pick what you need, based on whether you'd like to own a weblog, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by given web hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are often supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share a large quantity of pics with buddies or partners since the service is mostly free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and 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 service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mail box accounts. Some distributors offer web hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to run an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to utilize as many videos as you want without hassling about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to have a site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Egavas Hosting, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for particular content only.