Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service entails hoarding and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting company. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a blog, emails, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by some vendors, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limits 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 present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely wrong interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the load between individual stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given distributors provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share a great amount of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the service is mostly free. You will obtain a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to administering your mail aliases. Some vendors provide hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you would like to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to possess as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to possess a website. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At Dimahost, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular content solely.