Content Hosting

If there is one thing that hasn’t changed since the invention of the Internet, it is the fact that all content, even the most advanced multimedia live content, must be hosted someplace on a server. Thus, the web hosting business is one of the biggest and most lucrative enterprises related to modern information technology. Depending on a client’s hosting needs, there are plenty of options out there, some free, others that cost an arm and a leg (well, no, but there are some pretty expensive web hosting options out there–but you get your money’s worth!)

For creating and hosting blogs, the best shot is usually the free blog hosting service (one like Wordpress or Blogger) that provides you with a content management system that is very easy to use and that enables you to post text-based or multimedia live content on your blog anytime, from anywhere with an Internet connection (nowadays, even from a multimedia “smartphone”). Check out this website for more information on blog hosting.

If you want to host live video streams, multiplayer game servers or other content that requires more space and/or bandwidth, you may want to consider the other end of the spectrum and get your own dedicated server. Dedicated hosting plans are for people and businesses who need the convenience of having their own server with their hardware and software choice, either managed by the web host provider or by the customers themselves. These are also generally the most expensive web hosting options. For more info on dedicated hosting, check out this Dedicated Web Hosting guide.

A middle-of-the-road solution is a shared server–when you don’t rent an entire server to yourself, but rather a partition on a server owned by the web host provider and shared with lots of other customers. A combination of dedicated and shared hosting is the Virtual Private Server, or VPS, which is a partition that acts independently as a server, can be rebooted without affecting any other partitions, etc.