Web Hosting Plans Definition

A web hosting solution implies stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server managed by a web hosting company. There are various classes of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's study them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you wish to own a web site, email address accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by some providers, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created 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 view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud web hosting". This is a completely inapt explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud web hosting platform would allocate the load between autonomous packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share a vast amount of images with buddies or colleagues since the service is commonly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some companies offer web hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you would like to set up a mail address with your domain but do not desire to run a site, then the e-mail web hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domain name. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and a few hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to use as many video files as you would like without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a website. To some extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Cleardigitalwave you can view shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of web hosting service that you've selected - a free web hosting package, a paid shared website hosting package, a VPS web hosting or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific content only.