Description of Shared Hosting Packages

A shared hosting solution concerns depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a shared hosting provider. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's have a look at these. Thus, you can pick what you want, based on whether you'd like to build a web portal, e-mails, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various vendors, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel web hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud shared hosting". This is a totally distorted explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud shared hosting environment would split the workload between independent sets of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various shared hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you would like to share a huge number of pictures with friends or colleagues since the service is typically free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for 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 sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your emails. Some corporations offer shared hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you desire to run an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the email shared hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domain name. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your shared hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to manage as many videos as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Shared hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to run a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Sky Dragon Hosting you can explore shared shared hosting and dedicated server services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of shared hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared website hosting plan, a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your shared hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific web content only.