What are Shared Hosting Packages?

A shared hosting solution pertains to storing and/or sharing certain web content on a web server administered by a shared hosting supplier. There are various types of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's review these. In this way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a web page, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by given web hosts, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud shared hosting". This is an entirely improper explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud shared hosting system would assign the workload between different stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous shared hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a huge number of pics with buddies or partners since the solution is commonly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your electronic mail accounts. Some firms provide shared hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you want to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the email shared hosting service is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domain name. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your shared hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many videos as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Shared hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At Libertywebhost you can see shared shared hosting and dedicated server plans that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of shared hosting service that you've picked - a free web hosting plan, a paid shared website hosting plan, a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your shared hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular content only.