Description of Shared Hosting Plans

A shared hosting solution implies saving and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server administered by a shared hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a gaze at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you'd like to build a web site, email accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some companies, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file storage services are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, 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 web hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud shared hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud shared hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between different sets of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different shared hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud shared hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a large quantity of pictures with mates or partners since the solution is usually free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your mail address accounts. Some suppliers provide shared hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to run a mail address with your domain but do not want to run a web site, then the email shared hosting service is what you require. You can open mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domain. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your shared hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to use as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system quotas.

- Shared hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to possess a site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail box accounts, upload videos, etc. At AgooCloud you can explore shared shared hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of shared hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your shared hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific web content only.