What are Hosting Packages?

A hosting solution entails stashing and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server managed by a hosting company. There are various groups of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you'd like to launch a website, email box accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain file storage providers, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated 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 be unable to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting packages frequently include adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between individual hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share an immense quantity of images with buddies or partners since the solution is generally free of cost. You will get a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your email box accounts. Some companies provide hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you want to keep an e-mail address with your domain but do not want to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domain. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many videos as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to own a web site. To some degree, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mails, upload video files, and so on. At Melanesia Web Hosting you can have a glimpse at shared hosting and dedicated server plans that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free web hosting package, a paid shared web hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for particular web content only.