What are Web Hosting Plans?

A web hosting solution is related to keeping and/or sharing particular content on a server handled by a web hosting vendor. There are various categories of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a glimpse at them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you'd like to build a web portal, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various file storage providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts often involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations 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 the moment, with the help of the cPanel web hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud web hosting". This is a completely incorrect interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud web hosting environment would share the workload between autonomous hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given providers provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share a vast quantity of images with chums or partners since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your mails. Some corporations provide web hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email web hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domain. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many videos as you would like without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a web site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At D and Co. Webify you can examine shared web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of web hosting service that you've picked - a free web hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular content only.