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Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means storing and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting company. There are various classes of hosting services used for different goals, so let's survey them. Doing so, you can decide what you need, based on whether you desire to have a weblog, email aliases, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by given companies, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limits 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.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between independent sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, CP, 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; specific corporations offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a vast number of pics with chums or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture 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 websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to handling your email aliases. Some corporations offer web hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to get a mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email 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 in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video generates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many video clips as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At iMatrix ICT Group, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular content exclusively.