Classes of hosting services

A hosting service involves saving and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server hosted by a hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to own a web page, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by various firms, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage accounts often involve ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular interval 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 restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely mistaken explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the tasks at hand between separate stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a big amount of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service committed to taking care of your electronic mail accounts. Some vendors offer web space hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to run an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create email mailbox 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 e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many videos as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a web site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific content solely.