Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution means depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a server managed by a web hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a peek at them. Thus, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you desire to establish a web portal, e-mail accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by some firms, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only 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 created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular interval of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits 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.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely incorrect explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between individual groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting type is good if you wish to share an enormous number of images with comrades or partners since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your mail address accounts. Some corporations provide web space hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you would like to have an email address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to utilize as many video files as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to have a web site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular web content exclusively.