Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution includes keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a web server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's take a look at these. Thus, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to have a web site, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by given firms, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service 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 survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely imprecise interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between separate sets of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various site hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given companies provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share a huge quantity of images with chums or acquaintances since the service is generally free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your email accounts. Some vendors provide web hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to create a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many video files as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific content only.