What Exactly are Web Hosting Packages?

A web hosting service concerns stockpiling and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a look at these. In this way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a web page, e-mail addresses, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by some hosts, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by displaying advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel web hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud web hosting". This is a completely improper interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud web hosting environment would split the workload between different hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a huge number of pics with pals or associates since the service is commonly free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture 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 used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some firms offer web hosting services for websites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you would like to set up an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the email web hosting service is what you need. You can set up email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domain. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits 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 website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to administer as many video files as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At hostarabya you can see shared web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of web hosting service that you've settled on - a free web hosting package, a paid shared web hosting package, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific content only.