Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a peek at these. In that way, you can decide what you need, based on whether you'd like to set up a site, emails, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by particular file storage providers, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limits 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.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between individual stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share an enormous number of images with mates or acquaintances since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your mail address accounts. Some providers provide web site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email service. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to keep as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to possess a web site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for particular content exclusively.