Types of hosting services

A hosting service pertains to depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a web server administered by a hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's take a peek at these. Thus, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you wish to have a weblog, email accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by certain vendors, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally 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 be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts frequently involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given spell of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between separate hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share a vast quantity of pictures with buddies or colleagues since the service is usually free. You will obtain a random link for each image 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 utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your email accounts. Some firms offer web space hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to run as many videos as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to possess a web site. To some extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse compared with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content exclusively.