Now, with the assistance of the cPanel website hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the workload between autonomous hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given providers offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share an immense quantity of pictures with pals or colleagues since the service is generally free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.
- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your email aliases. Some companies offer web page hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you want to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can set up email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domain names. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.
- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to have as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system quotas.
- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can have a peek at business website hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server hosting. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse compared with the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for particular web content solely.
