I am a designer in the UK and I am creating 'yet another' video sharing site for the Web 2.0 bubble (Don't panic, it's a good one). \n\nI need to find out what sort of hosting I should use (maybe even get a comparison between shared, dedicated and virtual etc). And to accompany this which hosting companies I should be considering?\n\nI could have 1,000 subscribers, 100,000 (or you never know 1,000,000) subscribers so I need a scaleable solution that doesnt cost me 3 arms and 4.236 legs. \n\nI'll be hosting personal content and profiles for my users so it is VERY important that my host is Secure , reliable and I have Guaranteed Bandwidth for my users.\n\nI plan to offer 50+Gb Bandwidth Transfer and 10+Gb Storage for each user. I do understand that Bandwidth costs money and therefore a lot of hosting plans Oversell for the majority of users who are not going to maximize the bandwidth offered to them.\n\nI need your advice/answers to help me find a trusted partner for hosting my service. Thank You
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Hi,\n\nI have a friend that just found a web hosting company that supplies unmetered bandwidth (without restrictions).  He's been saying a lot of nice things about midPhase since he transferred from his last host.  You can find them at http://www.midphaseoffers.com/ for more information.  \n\nIf I remember right, I think he said he had a shared hosting plan with them with unmetered bandwidth, support for unlimited domains, a lot of disk space (for your videos) and a nice 30-day guarantee.  \n\nThe site above should also provide you with a comparison for midPhase shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting plans.  I hope this helps.\n\nGood luck,\n\n\nPhantomT
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I'm not sure what exactly your asking actually, are you speaking of selling more bandwidth on the server? because if you are then I don't see a problem. Large well visited sites often require more bandwidth to load within an acceptable amount of time, and thus require more hardware and up keep by companies staff. Smaller less viewed websites, require less bandwidth because generally the content isn't as demanding on the servers and network lines.  In otherwords lets say you lived next to AOL's corporate headquarters, would you be mad at the city for putting in bigger water pipes to their offices than to your personal home? And would you be mad if the City charged AOL more for the cost of maintaining and installing those big pipes? Or would you want everyone to be charged the same regardless of what their water demand was?
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Sorry to dissapoint you but there's no such thing.  Every domain name registration costs money and no-one is going to pay so that you can register your own domain name.\n\nEven if you accept that you're not getting your own domain name you're asking an awful lot.  A lot of free sites are HTML only and a lot don't offer 55MB webspace.  In most cases the bandwidth wouldn't be a problem but 500MB is a tiny amount of bandwidth - it's about 15MB a day; if you're talking 500MB a day then that's going to eliminate a lot of free hosts.\n\nHere's a reply I gave to a similar question...\n\nThere's several places you can get a free website including from Yahoo (their service is called Geocities).\n\nIf you're serious about creating a website and want one that looks professional then I wouldn't consider a free site, there are many paid for sites that need only cost you a few dollars a month.\n\nHere's some of the things to consider about free sites...\n\n-- 1 --\nYou're often restricted in the type of files you can have, some sites don't allow MP3's or video files for example.\n\n-- 2 --\nThere's usually a bandwidth limit (this is the amount of data that's downloaded).  It normally doesn't take long to reach the bandwidth limit and when this happens the site becomes unavailable - you've probably come across such sites yourself.  The bandwidth limit is often hourly and also monthly.  If you hit your hourly limit your site will be down for about an hour but if you hit your monthly limit if could be down for days or even weeks.\n\n-- 3 --\nMost free sites have a limit to the amount of space you have to store your site.  Large files such as music and video will very quickly fill the space.  Simple text pages don't use much space but when you start adding a few graphics this can soon add up.\n\n-- 4 --\nThere's rarely any technical support with free sites other than user forums.  If something goes wrong it's up to you to sort it out.\n\n-- 5 --\nSome copmpanies that provide free sites are 'here today and gone tomorrow' - just what you need if you've spent ages designing a nice site.  Others are initially free but then state you have to pay or your site will be deleted.  To avoid this stick with the well known and established names such as Tripod/Lycos and Yahoo/Geocities.\n\n-- 6 --\nFree sites are often limited in what you can do, a lot won't support PSP or MySql, some don't even support Java.  Could mean that features such as forums, blogs, guestbooks etc aren't possible on your site.\n\n-- 7 --\nA free site has to pay for itself somehow, no company is going to give away webspace without getting something in return.  One common practice is to place adverts on your site.  Sometimes these ads are themed and related to your site but other times they're completely unrelated.\n\n-- 8 --\nOften the site isn't transferable except to a paid for service provided by the same company.  This can be a serious problem if your site becomes popular and you need to move it somewhere that can accomodate your growing needs.\n\n-- 9 --\nOften any extras are hugely expensive, if for example you want to buy more data transfer (bandwidth) you could easily be paying $1 per GB.  It might not sound a lot but if you're also paying for more web storage space and access to certain tools it will work out far more expensive than having a paid-for site.\n\n-- 10 --\nYou won't get your own domain name so instead of having xyzcompany.com you'll have something like freewebhostingcompany/xyzcompany.com.\n\n-- FREE SITES --\nIf you still want a free website then this page here... http://www.free-webhosts.com/search-webhosts.php is an excellent resource as it compares no less than 545 different free webhosts complete with reviews and user comments for each one.\n\nHere's some links to the 4 most popular free webhosts...\n\nLycos Tripod (CNet
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Great Idea!  I would recommend visiting http://www.real.com and searching for a streaming server that they give out.  I used to us one called G2, and am not sure if that is still  available.  Real is trying hard to take over the market share, so I am sure they still having something available that will work for you.  Hope this helps
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I would strongly recommend www.mewebhost.com\n\nI've been using them for 2 years now and they're absolutely fantastic. Uptime guaranteed to 99.9%. They're hosting plans are very valuable and price reasonable. They're great for individual sites as well as for small business websites. As far as creating your own website goes, they even give you a link to download over 300+ PRE-DESIGNED WEB TEMPLATES which are really neat, so that might be of a great help for you.\n\nCheck it out: http://www.mewebhost.com
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Used them for a large period about 2 years ago.\n\nThe machine got hacked and racked up some serious bandwith which they charged us a fortune for (with little help).\n\nOn the plus side the technical support is usually pretty responsive and is all ticket based so at least things can be followed up.\n\nOh and they have starwars playing on their tech support queue line which you'll get very used to.\n\nDepends what sort of hosting your after really, if your going to pay out a reasonable amount for a service that you need to be reliable for multiple or a big site then fasthost would seem a decent choice.\n\nOther than that if your only operating something small, give bluguy a go, ive found them very very cheap and very responsive, though i only have the one site on there.
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Go to any web company that offers Virtual Dedicated Servers.  So for example, Rackforce, Rackspace, Verio, etc.  Just do a web search, and you'll find some good prices out there.  The cost has really dropped in line with the dropping price of storage...
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LOL!!!\n\n1Gb/s broadband!!!\n\nYou are out of your mind, that does not exist for home usage, maybe for IBM offices...\n\nWhat country are you in? That determines what companys you want to look at!\n\nI think you meant 1mb/s... correct me if i am wrong.\n\n\nEDIT:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\n\nPlease watch out for this:\n\nUNLIMITED DOWNLOAD, in the small print - they usualy put "Subject to Fair usage Policy" Therfore it is not unlimited and you can be kicked off the service or limited to say 15kbps upload and 30kbps download if u try to use a lot of bandwidth.\n\nI download a fair bit but the BT package with 40gb is more than enough (i live in the uk).
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Kicky's wrong...\n\nI personally recommend ATSPACE.COM. It is FREE and the host allows up to 50MB of webspace and NO ADS! The others mentioned here have ads plastered all over your site...\n\nATSPACE.COM\nhttp://www.atspace.com\n\nHere are two sites I've created on this host:\nhttp://tim8w.atspace.com\nhttp://tricountytitans.atspace.com
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That site didn't work for me... are you sure it isn't a scam?\n\nOkay, a second try and now it seems to work.  A quick check of WHOIS shows the site registed to Boling Jiang in Overland Park, Kansas. Not sure what his business model is, but it sure seems like a very good offer. But you know what they say about things that seem too good to be true...\n\nBack again with another edit... I noticed several typos on their home page, and slow response in clicking on links. The forum wouldn't open and their FAQ link returned an error.  The bottom paragraph says, "So What's the Catch? \nThere is none! You only have to follow our guidelines and we place a small collapsible text banner on your page. That's right, only quality web hosting and reliable servers! Sign up today for some speedy hosting!"\n\nA search of Google only showed a few hits for sites on their servers (scsc.3000mb.com was one) but it didn't show a text banner as far as I could tell.
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Hmmm. Not the best idea, espeicially if you plan to put anything important on it.\n\nServers served thru ISP's are slow.  Hosting via Verizon DSL will be slow, especially if you have the 786 Kbps package.\n\nHosting providers generally have atleast T3 lines... you likely don't have more than 3.0Mbps download and 1.5Mbps upload (the midlevel Verizon DSL package)  When someone is calling to your server, it will be like an upload, so it will be at that slower rate.  So, although your DSL might kick @ss in terms of speed for your own use, can you imagine how slow your web pages will serve up if you are downloading MP3's off the net while 2 people are trying to download your AVI files on your website which is on your server sharing your bandwidth with your downloads?\n\nIf you are hosting anything vital, I would definitely recommend using a colocated server with 24/7 support.  If you are just hosting to entertain yourself - you know, a website with your blog and pics of your pets, then having your own server is ok.  however, if you have mission critical stuff that needs to have no downtime, don't host on your own. You'll need to be able to deal with your server 24/7 (can't do a remote reboot if your server is down and you can't even ping it).\n\nI highly recommend co-location, because you don't want the stress of having to deal with your server when it goes down at 2:00 a.m. the day before a test/presentation at work, or whatever you do in your real life.\n\nGood luck.
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parkerjr2 is right about learning a bit more stuff.\n\nYou might also consider godaddy which has templated sites, forums, shopping carts and so on. Not expensive either.\n\nNothing prevents you from having your site and forum on one host and the shopping cart on another (yahoo has a shopping cart service which many people use - you don't even realize it's yahoo until you check out).
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Let me see if i can answer your web hosting question easily. Web hosting is really a computer hooked up to the internet in a building with a very fast connection that holds your website on it. Usually to make this happen you get "web hosting" from a company that offers this service. That company has a computer in a building that is hooked up to a very fast connection and sells you space on that computer, which is called "web hosting" \n\nA domain is a name that is like a car. you can tell it to go anywhere you want. When you purchase a domain name it will require you to tell the internet how to get to your webpage if someone types in your domain in their web browser. If you have chosen a web hosting company to hold your website on, they will provide you with something called a nameserver which is really similar to a phone number. you will enter those numbers they provided you into the nameserver area of the domain name (where you purchased the domain) and that will tell anyone that types your domain in their browser to get your webpage at the hosting company's computer your bought space from.\n\n\nI hope this answered your question on a simple basis. If you are also in need of hosting I recommend using Heath Hosting. I have had NOT one problem with them. They have great technical support and very easy to work with. Their prices are great too!
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Three words of advice\n\nFirst, nothing is Free in this world. You will end up paying for it one way or another. You better off buying a cheap one with no catch 22.\n\nDon't deal with anyone who want to re-bill you automatically.\n\nIf you don't know anything about it, you got yourself a problem. Because in most cases, once you bought it, you will be expected to set it up all by yourself.\nFirst you need a hosting service. They will give you a control panel (C-Panel) and you will not understand the first thing about it. So it will cost you more money to have the hosting service setting it up for you.
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GoDaddy.com is the best in my opinion. It cost me about $3.95 per month for my hosting. Linux/PHP or Windows. Either one will do for what you need. If you buy your domain name from them you get free hosting and free website builder. On the free one they run ads at the very top of the page. Go look at my website http://www.kennedale-police.com this is done with free hosting. Dont judge me on that one as it is incomplete and I only have 2 pages. Imagine what you might be able to do. Go to GoDaddy.com and check out all the features.
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Tripod for free space with advertising, or 250free. the former will give you 20 Mb with advertising the latter 250Mb with lots of advertising. if you don't have web design software try NVU. Also try coffecup for a freeware FTP program.\n\nThat must be a top answer!\n\nlook at my site and steal ideas, download MP3's etc. leave a message in the guest book.
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I'm currently working with ProfitAdult.com. I have several turkey adult websites with them and making great money. They offer all the adult content, billing, hosting, maintenance and marketing support in one. \n\nOriginally, I wanted to build it my own site, but it gets very expensive from $2,500 and up. Their solution starts at only $495 which is extremely affordable.  I am extremely happy with them! You can check them out at http://ProfitAdult.com