Description of Shared Hosting Plans

A shared hosting service applies to stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a hosting server hosted by a shared hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's take a glance at them. Thus, you can decide what you need, based on whether you'd like to build a web page, email addresses, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service provided by some companies, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts often include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain span of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the help of the cPanel web hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud shared hosting". This is an entirely inaccurate explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud shared hosting platform would allot the load between different hosts of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various shared hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share a large number of pics with pals or colleagues since the solution is usually free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to managing your e-mail addresses. Some firms provide shared hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to get an email address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the e-mail shared hosting service is what you need. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domain. 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 some video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your shared hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will permit you to run as many videos as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Shared hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to keep a web site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At Vitohosting you can take a peek at shared shared hosting and dedicated server packages that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits depending on the type of shared hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared web 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 ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular content only.