Hosting Packages Description

A hosting solution pertains to keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web server managed by a hosting vendor. There are various categories of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a peek at them. Thus, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to establish a blog, e-mail accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain firms, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting plans often involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud hosting environment would assign the tasks at hand between different sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share a vast number of pictures with buddies or acquaintances since the service is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your e-mail address accounts. Some suppliers provide hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to possess a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domain name. The e-mail hosting service involves 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 specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many video clips as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, etc. At My Dragonweb Hosting you can view shared hosting and dedicated server services that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared web hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular web content only.