What is the best dedicated server company for hosting videos?

Maxoq · Oct 21, 2016

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?

VirtuBox · Oct 21, 2016

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.

TMS - JoseQ · Oct 21, 2016

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.

Maxoq · Oct 21, 2016

VirtuBox said:
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?

TMS - JoseQ said:
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.

LJSHost · Oct 21, 2016

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.

HostYouFast · Oct 22, 2016

Maxoq said:
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!

bacloud · Oct 25, 2016

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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