Description of Shared Hosting Solutions

A shared hosting solution means depositing and/or sharing particular content on a server administered by a shared hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a look at these. Doing so, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you'd like to own a weblog, mail aliases, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by various web hosts, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services frequently involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular interval of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel web hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud shared hosting". This is a totally imprecise explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud shared hosting system would divide the load between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous shared hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific distributors provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share an immense number of pics with mates or acquaintances since the service is typically free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some providers offer shared hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you would like to open a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the e-mail shared hosting service is what you need. You can create e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domain. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your shared hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many video files as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Shared hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a web site. To some extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and emails, upload video clips, and so on. At Abenet Hosting you can take a gaze at shared shared hosting and dedicated server solutions that permit you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be restrictions based on the form of shared hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, 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 in comparison with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for particular web content only.