Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution suggests stashing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server administered by a hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a glimpse at these. Thus, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you wish to run a site, email box accounts, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service supplied by some web hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get 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 not be able to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting packages are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely improper interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between separate bunches of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some firms offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share an immense number of images with pals or acquaintances since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your email box accounts. Some providers provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you wish to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up email accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to use as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the routine email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular content exclusively.