What are Shared Hosting Packages?
A shared hosting solution implies saving and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server run by a shared hosting provider. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different ends, so let's study these. In this way, you can pick what you need, based on whether you'd like to run a website, mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.
- File hosting: a service provided by certain firms, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage packages often include ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular span of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, 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 corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud shared hosting". This is a completely wrong explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud shared hosting system would assign the workload between different sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous shared hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even near.
- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share a huge amount of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.
- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mail aliases. Some firms offer shared hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you wish to possess an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the email shared hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domain name. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.
- Video hosting: this solution permits 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 site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with several video files and several hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your shared hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to use as many video files as you would like without bothering about system resources.
- Shared hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a web site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, etc. At you can have a glimpse at shared shared hosting and dedicated server services that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of shared hosting service that you've selected - a free web hosting plan, a paid shared web hosting account, a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your shared hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific web content only.