Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service means depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server managed by a hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a glance at these. Thus, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a site, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given firms, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts frequently include adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you await a given period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally mistaken interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between autonomous stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given corporations provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share an immense quantity of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the service is typically free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every picture 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 utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mails. Some suppliers offer webspace hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to get an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to have as many videos as you desire without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to run a web site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mails, upload video clips, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific content exclusively.