What Precisely are Web Hosting Packages?

A web hosting solution entails hoarding and/or sharing certain web content on a web server run by a web hosting distributor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a glance at these. Doing so, you can decide what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a web page, e-mail accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by some companies, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage services are often supported by showing ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud web hosting". This is a totally unsuitable explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud web hosting environment would apportion the tasks at hand between individual packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is good if you want to share a large quantity of images with pals or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will get a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your e-mailbox accounts. Some firms offer web hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email solution. If you wish to launch a mail address with your domain but do not desire to run a site, then the e-mail web hosting solution is what you need. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domain name. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to operate as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Comnet Cloud Solutions you can view shared web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limits based on the sort of web hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared website hosting package, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for particular web content only.