Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution is associated with stashing and/or sharing specific content on a server managed by a hosting company. There are various types of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at these. In that way, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you'd like to have a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by various hosts, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts often include ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some firms offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share an immense amount of images with friends or acquaintances since the service is generally free. You will get a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to handling your email box accounts. Some providers provide web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email solution. If you desire to keep an email address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to operate as many videos as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a web site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content only.