Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service applies to stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting provider. There are various varieties of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. Doing so, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you'd like to create a web portal, mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution made available by some firms, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages are frequently supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely false explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the workload between autonomous stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web page hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given distributors provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share an immense amount of pictures with comrades or associates since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some distributors provide site hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to have an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to possess as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to own a web site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular content exclusively.