What Exactly are Hosting Plans?

A hosting solution concerns stashing and/or sharing specific web content on a server administered by a hosting company. There are different categories of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a gaze at these. Doing so, you can decide what you need, depending on whether you'd like to establish a weblog, email box accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by given companies, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans frequently include adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inaccurate interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between different groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given firms offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a vast quantity of pics with friends or partners since the service is typically free of cost. You will obtain a random 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 solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to taking care of your mail accounts. Some suppliers provide hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you want to own an email address with your domain but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open electronic mail 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to manage as many video files as you want without hassling about system quotas.

- Hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to have a website. To some degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and email accounts, upload video clips, etc. At ThreeMen.Net you can take a peek at shared hosting and dedicated server packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free web hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content only.