What is the best dedicated server company for hosting videos?

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I am planning to build a website for sharing videos including Youtube and self host videos but I don't know if I build kind of this website do I need to a special hosting package like a dedicated server to host it or can I go with a shared hosting? Does any one share your advice?
 

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If you are planning to host your videos for streaming, you website will not really need something special, but you will have to store your videos on a server, probably a dedicated if you want some storage. Or you can go with a cheap VPS to begin and then change later. But the bandwidth will be the most important.
 

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The amount of storage and the bandwidth quota will be your most important factors here. Depending on the volume, you may be able to get away with it with shared hosting and/or a VPS to start but if the traffic grows fast then you will most likely need a dedicated (or multiple ones at that).

If the website is only for embedded videos from other sources (such as Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) then shared hosting will be more than enough at least until your visits and concurrent users grow to a good amount.
 

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If you are planning to host your videos for streaming, you website will not really need something special, but you will have to store your videos on a server, probably a dedicated if you want some storage. Or you can go with a cheap VPS to begin and then change later. But the bandwidth will be the most important.
I read that if I put many videos on my website and hosting it will need more server resource and many RAM/CPU to allow viewers watch them smoothly. Is it true?

The amount of storage and the bandwidth quota will be your most important factors here. Depending on the volume, you may be able to get away with it with shared hosting and/or a VPS to start but if the traffic grows fast then you will most likely need a dedicated (or multiple ones at that).

If the website is only for embedded videos from other sources (such as Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) then shared hosting will be more than enough at least until your visits and concurrent users grow to a good amount.
I can not imagine how Youtube hosts their videos, number of videos are so huge and how they managed and maintained servers for them.
 

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Yes, you will need massive resources if you are hosting the videos AND you have a lot of visitors. If you only have a few hundred a day, then all you will really need is a lot of bandwidth. Once you start seeing concurrent video watchers, then you may need high resources. Bandwidth will still be your main constraint.

Videos are high throughput content. Depending on encoding, you may be anywhere from 1Mbps to 10Mbps PER visitor. So if you have 100 people watching a 10Mbps encoded video, then you're already maxing out a Gbps port with only 100 people. The serving part is simple for 100 visitors since it's mostly just sending data and not really processing anything. But your port will max out rather quickly.

Now, given MOST videos online are probably max out in the 3-4Mbps, but still, that's a lot of bandwidth.

I would recommend embedding youtube videos rather than hosting them.

Youtube runs off of a Content Delivery Network which spans the whole globe. There's thousands (if not millions) of servers for that.
 

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I must agree with the other comments regarding YouTube. YouTube is the best content delivery system for video. Just embed the video's on your site.
If your serving your content from YouTube a shared hosting will be ample to get your site up and running and never need to worry about bandwidth issues.

If you want to serve your own content you will need a powerful VPS or dedicated with a ton of bandwidth which will be costly.
 

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I am planning to build a website for sharing videos including Youtube and self host videos but I don't know if I build kind of this website do I need to a special hosting package like a dedicated server to host it or can I go with a shared hosting? Does any one share your advice?
I will say you start with a VPS server and with time you can upgrade to a dedicated server. You will also need a server with high storage space for your files. Shared hosting will not do it well unless you want to just embed video from Youtube and from other site which give out embed code on there videos.

Good Luck!
 

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Depends on users. For a start E3 should work. After - dual E5 with high storage will be perfect. And the next step - cluster of servers.
 

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