Shared Hosting Plans Explanation

A shared hosting solution involves storing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server hosted by a shared hosting distributor. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's take a glance at them. Thus, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you'd like to set up a web portal, e-mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by some companies, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support site 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 view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage plans often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel web hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud shared hosting". This is a totally inapt explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud shared hosting system would split the tasks at hand between different sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various shared hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a big quantity of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is typically free. You will obtain a random link for every picture 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 used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your mail aliases. Some firms offer shared hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to run an e-mail address with your domain but do not want to keep a web site, then the e-mail shared hosting solution is what you require. You can set up email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domain. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits 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 website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your shared hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many videos as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Shared hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a web site. To some extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload videos, and so on. At DNA Tec Hosting you can view shared shared hosting and dedicated server plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the sort of shared hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared website hosting account, a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your shared hosting package may be better or worse compared to the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular web content only.