Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service applies to saving and/or sharing specific web content on a web server run by a website hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services used for various goals, so let's survey these. Doing so, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you wish to run a site, emails, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular file storage providers, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly untrue interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the load between different stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you desire to share a large number of images with pals or associates since the service is commonly free. You will receive a random link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your email address accounts. Some suppliers offer hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email service. If you want to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to run as many videos as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to run a web site. To some degree, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At ACQ Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific content solely.