Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service concerns keeping and/or sharing given content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are different groups of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a gaze at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to create a web portal, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution made available by some hosts, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between autonomous stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you want to share a large quantity of images with friends or partners since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will get a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to administering your electronic mail accounts. Some vendors offer hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can open email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to own as many videos as you would like without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to possess a site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Congo Num Host, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort 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 hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for specific web content solely.