Varieties of hosting services
A hosting service implies hoarding and/or sharing particular web content on a server managed by a hosting vendor. There are various forms of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a gaze at them. In that way, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to build a web site, e-mails, or to share files with mates and associates.
- File hosting: a service supplied by various vendors, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts often involve ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get 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 limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.
These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different webspace hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share a big amount of pics with mates or colleagues since the solution is generally free. 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 compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.
- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your e-mailbox accounts. Some firms offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email solution. If you would like to have an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up email accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.
- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system quotas.
- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to run a web site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular content only.