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Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes saving and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting company. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's survey them. Thus, you can pick what you need, based on whether you desire to establish a blog, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by some providers, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer 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 read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services frequently involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain span of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely erroneous explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between different sets of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various website hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a great quantity of images with buddies or partners since the service is mostly free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your e-mail aliases. Some firms offer web space hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to create an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up email accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to have as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to keep a site. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, etc. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific content solely.