Types of hosting services

A hosting solution is related to keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting provider. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's take a glance at them. In that way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you desire to establish a blog, mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by various providers, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts frequently involve ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limitations 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.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely untrue interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the load between independent sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various webspace hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some companies provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share an immense quantity of images with buddies or associates since the service is mostly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your e-mail address accounts. Some suppliers provide web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you want to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to operate as many video clips as you want without hassling about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to own a web site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular content only.