Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service refers to depositing and/or sharing certain content on a server administered by a hosting company. There are various classes of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a glimpse at them. Thus, you can elect what you need, based on whether you wish to launch a web site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by various web hosts, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain 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 be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages frequently include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would assign the load between autonomous sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various site hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given vendors provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a large quantity of pics with mates or partners since the service is mostly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your emails. Some firms offer hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to have an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to run as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a website. To some extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At BATITO Hosting, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for particular web content only.