Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is associated with keeping and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server run by a website hosting distributor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a look at these. In that way, you can decide what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to create a site, email accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service offered by given web hosts, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard 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 trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly twisted interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between independent stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various site hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some companies provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share an immense number of pictures with chums or partners since the service is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some providers offer site hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to open a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to own as many video files as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a website. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mails, upload video clips, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for specific web content only.