Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with keeping and/or sharing specific content on a server handled by a hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's have a glance at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to run a blog, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by some companies, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage services are often supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain stretch 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 restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely improper interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between individual bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web space hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you want to share an enormous amount of images with buddies or partners since the service is commonly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your mail aliases. Some corporations offer web hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to open an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mailbox 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 video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to keep as many video clips as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to run a website. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for specific web content exclusively.