Each of us has his/her very own reasons in looking for and utilizing a web hosting service. A promising movie director may be in need of a web hosting service that specializes on video streaming, either live or not, to be able to upload and share his/her short films. Another person with musical leanings may be looking for a site to store the music he/she produces, to get feedback and constructive critiques from other people. Just another, a watercolor artist or a digital painter maybe, would need a site to host his/her art for easier access of possible employers or contractors. Storing files online becomes easier with the help of web hosting services.

The best web hosting service for you usually depends on the kind and amount of files you are going to store. Whether your files are small or large, it would be best to look for web hosting sites with the most available bandwidth. In storing image files, for example, you can find sites like Imageshack with available unlimited bandwidth for all your pictures. This is especially useful if you blog with high resolution pictures – blogs don’t usually support big images on their directories. Linking them with image hosting sites will greatly improve the effect of your blog for your pictures can be seen in their original high resolution.

In choosing the web hosting site to use, you have two options: first is to directly use your website’s domain with the web hosting service’s servers. This is the easiest way for every website owner, especially for beginners. But because you’re using your own web space, it may run out quite fast especially if the files you upload are more graphic than text heavy. For example, even a small image eats up around 1 MB of your web space while 10 pages of text can only add up to 100 KB, just about 1/10th of the small image. Depending on the requirements of your website, you can choose whether or not to use this kind of web hosting.

The other option aside from directly using your website’s domain is to use remote access web hosting sites, like http://Box.Net. In these remote storage websites, you can upload and hotlink all your image, video, game or music files from their server instead of using up your website’s space. This method of storing files greatly increases the amount of images and other flashy animations you can include in your website, as the bandwidth you’re using up is not your own. On the other hand, a disadvantage of using this method is that you have no control if ever a remote web host goes down – your online files may be deleted. Keeping an extra copy of your files in another server or in your own computer will help you counteract such incidents.

Before deciding which web hosting site to finally use, there are a few things you must be clear on first. Make sure to check out what kinds of files you would be storing. Shop around for web hosting services depending on these kinds of files and the benefits you might acquire from them. Most importantly, register with a web hosting service that ensures the protection and security of your files. Choose wisely among the vast number of available services on the Internet.

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