Categories of hosting services

A hosting service means storing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting company. There are various groups of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a gaze at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you'd like to build a website, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various companies, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support 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 view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to perceive 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 immediately, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely untrue explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between different packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a large quantity of images with chums or associates since the service is typically free of cost. You will obtain a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your mail aliases. Some vendors provide hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to run as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a website. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mails, upload video clips, etc. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular content only.