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Streaming video hosting - cost

  • 14-11-2007 02:08AM
    #1
    mcirl2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I am setting up a website and I am planning on having a lot of streaming video.

    When I mean a lot I mean 5000-10000+ videos (approx 5-10 mins each).

    What would be the best solution? Will it cost an absolute fortune or is there any reasonable enough way.

    any advice would be great

    Mike


Comments

  • #2
    stakey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 722 ✭✭✭stakey


    Hi Mike,

    If you're looking at a shared hosting service you'd want to use a plan with lots of available bandwidth and lots of storage. I presume a 5-10 min video is going to be in the 1-5mb size (or possibly above).

    5000 to 10000 1-5mb videos = alot of storage (around 50GB) and alot of bandwidth that you'd need (depending on how busy your site is of course). Say each of those 10000, 1-5mb videos get downloaded a number of times your looking at a huge amount of bandwidth!

    You might want to look at a dedicated server which would afford you much more storage than a shared hosting account and the bandwidth to boot...


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