Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution entails depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting supplier. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's examine them. In that way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to create a site, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely twisted interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the load between different packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web page hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a big amount of pics with mates or associates since the solution is typically free. You will obtain a random link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your mail accounts. Some firms provide web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you desire to possess a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many video clips as you want without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a website. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content only.