What Actually are Shared Hosting Solutions?

A shared hosting solution concerns saving and/or sharing particular web content on a web server hosted by a shared hosting company. There are various types of hosting services used for various aims, so let's examine these. In this way, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a blog, email box accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular companies, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created 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 load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular interval of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud shared hosting". This is a thoroughly inapt interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud shared hosting platform would allocate the load between autonomous stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various shared hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you wish to share a large number of pics with friends or partners since the service is generally free. You will receive a random link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mailbox accounts. Some corporations provide shared hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you would like to create an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail shared hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domain. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your shared hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to run as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system quotas.

- Shared hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to possess a web site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At St. Clare Web Hosting you can have a look at shared shared hosting and dedicated server packages that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits depending on the kind of shared hosting service that you've chosen - a free web hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your shared hosting account may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific web content only.