Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution suggests saving and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server managed by a hosting distributor. There are different types of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a gaze at them. Thus, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to own a site, mails, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service supplied by particular hosts, which allows you to share large 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 designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are often supported by displaying advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the tasks at hand between independent hosts of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given companies offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a great quantity of pics with comrades or associates since the service is commonly free of charge. You will get a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to managing your email accounts. Some companies offer webspace hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an email service. If you wish to run an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open e-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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many videos as you want to without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to have a website. To some extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular web content only.