What Does Shared Hosting Services Denote?

A shared hosting solution is associated with depositing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server managed by a shared hosting vendor. There are various sorts of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a glimpse at these. Thus, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a web site, email accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by certain vendors, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction when it comes 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 faddish "cloud shared hosting". This is an entirely erroneous interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud shared hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between individual stacks of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different shared hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some providers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a great number of images with friends or colleagues since the solution is typically free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your email address accounts. Some providers offer shared hosting services for websites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you desire to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the email shared hosting service is what you require. You can create mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domain. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your shared hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to utilize as many video clips as you want without hassling about system resources.

- Shared hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to run a web site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mails, upload videos, and so on. At Helios Host you can take a look at shared shared hosting and dedicated hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of shared hosting service that you've opted for - a free web hosting plan, a paid shared web hosting plan, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Based on that, your shared hosting account may be better or worse compared with the usual email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for specific web content only.