Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service involves saving and/or sharing certain content on a web server administered by a hosting company. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different ends, so let's examine these. Doing so, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you'd like to establish a blog, email aliases, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain companies, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a list 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-cost file storage packages are frequently supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular stretch of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely twisted interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would apportion the tasks at hand between separate sets of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web page hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a big number of pictures with mates or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some corporations provide web page hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to possess an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with several videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to possess as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to own a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, etc. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the routine email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular web content solely.