Web Hosting Plans Clarified

A web hosting service includes stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a web server hosted by a web hosting distributor. There are various types of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a peek at them. Doing so, you can decide what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a site, e-mails, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by certain companies, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register 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-of-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel web hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud web hosting". This is a totally incorrect explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud web hosting system would apportion the load between different groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a vast amount of images with buddies or associates since the solution is usually free of cost. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mail addresses. Some providers provide web hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to own an e-mail address with your domain but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail web hosting service is what you require. You can open e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domain. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to use as many videos as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to keep a site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Gills Hosting you can have a glance at shared web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limits based on the kind of web hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared web hosting plan, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for particular content only.