Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service suggests storing and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server run by a hosting distributor. There are different forms of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a gaze at them. In that way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a web portal, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by various vendors, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support site 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 examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would distribute the tasks at hand between independent packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web site hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a big amount of images with friends or partners since the service is generally free. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some companies offer webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with several video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to have as many video clips as you want without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to run a site. To some extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At DGWCloud, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific content exclusively.