Shared Hosting Services Unveiled

A shared hosting solution pertains to stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a web server run by a shared hosting company. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's examine them. Thus, you can determine what you need, based on whether you'd like to have a site, mails, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain hosts, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once 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 roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain interval of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel web hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud shared hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud shared hosting system would split the tasks at hand between individual groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous shared hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given providers offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share an enormous number of pictures with chums or associates since the service is mostly free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your mails. Some vendors offer shared hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to set up an e-mail address with your domain but do not want to run a website, then the e-mail shared hosting solution is what you require. You can create mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domain name. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your shared hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to have as many videos as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Shared hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to possess a website. To a certain degree, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Webhostar you can have a glimpse at shared shared hosting and dedicated server accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of shared hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared web hosting plan, a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. Based on that, your shared hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular content only.