Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution applies to stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are various categories of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a gaze at these. Doing so, you can choose what you want, based on whether you wish to establish a web page, email box accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution made available by particular hosts, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage packages frequently involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inappropriate explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the tasks at hand between separate stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some suppliers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a big amount of pictures with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your email box accounts. Some corporations offer site hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you desire to launch an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits 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 website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to use as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to have a site. To some extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email accounts, upload video files, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for specific web content only.