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Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service appertains to saving and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a gaze at them. In that way, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a site, email aliases, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some web hosts, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage solutions are often supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inaccurate interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the workload between autonomous stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share a large quantity of images with mates or colleagues since the solution is generally free. You will obtain a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently 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.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your e-mail addresses. Some suppliers provide web space hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you want without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to own a website. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At SWS PRO, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific web content exclusively.