Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to depositing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services used for various aims, so let's take a look at them. In that way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you'd like to build a website, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given providers, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory 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 solutions are frequently supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the tasks at hand between individual sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given companies offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share a big quantity of pics with comrades or colleagues since the service is commonly free of cost. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your email box accounts. Some suppliers provide website hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you wish to open a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to use as many video files as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a web site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At SKC Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular web content only.