Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service entails depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web server managed by a website hosting vendor. There are various categories of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a look at them. In this way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you wish to own a site, email box accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by given providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are often supported by exhibiting adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain interval of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the load between separate groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a large number of images with mates or acquaintances since the service is commonly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every image 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 utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your email box accounts. Some vendors provide website hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email service. If you wish to possess an email address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to keep as many video files as you want to without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to have a web site. To some degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular content solely.