What do I need to host multimedia content on my server?

What do I need to host multimedia

content on my server?

A web page is more than the words on a page. A web page can contain information such as movies, music, audio or in other words, it can contain sound or video. Your hosting company may provide you with a small amount of space, or a large amount of space for your website, depending on the company and the amount of money that you are charged.

The more audio and visual files you have on your page, on your web site the larger the amount of space you will require for hosting of those pages.

There are two types of files you can put on your website, which are individual and steaming types.

Individual files are those that you load once to your site. These files can be loaded to your site, and played from the server just as any other page loads from your site. You an also provide links from your website so the user can download that file to their own computer and play the same information (audio or video).

The streaming file is one that contains larger amounts of information. Consider the streaming file to be the one that flows information, while the individual file is one that is a drop of information. The streaming file is one that will download to the users computer as it plays so it saves on space and use of the server where your information (your website) is stored.

Information such as music, movies and videos require a large amount of bandwidth to play. You can compare this to dial up and to DSL or cable. The more information you want to see and have on your site, the more bandwidth your site will require users to access it properly. Read the fine print from the hosting company to ensure your site will continue to run and be seen properly while using multimedia on your site.

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