Thread: Some space for hosting media

I would suspect you would be fine with ANY hosting account with enough disk space... your usage will be very low.

How many websites do you host?
What type of videos are they?

Assuming nothing untoward, then you should have no issue hosting this anywhere, with streaming of certain filetypes handled by the client end.

Hi Jamie
I host about 30 websites on a reseller account, all fairly low visitor numbers though. The videos are of conferences my customer runs. wants to let people watch them online (streaming) after the event.
All videos are in FLV format.
As I say, I have spoken with Heartinternet and they dont touch streaming or allow uploads over 100MB. (unless you break up the file then recompile once uploaded).

Actually, to clarify, I was going to leave everything where it is and just setup the videos on a new system for now, then any additional customers as time goes on would go on here.

Hi,

If they're just native FLV then there should be no issues hosting them on most of the providers accounts on here (we're not allowed to recommend ourselves outside of the Requests for Products and Services section.

I dont see why anyone would ban files over a certain size.. unless they have unworkable limits (ie unlimited transfer and disk) in place, so use this as a brute force sledgehammer to stop people abusing their service..

Just pick a host which has the disk and transfer limits you need, which looks reputable and UK based (assuming the majority of your clients clients are UK based) and drop a few emails to their support / sales people at varying times of the day, to see how they respond.

Good Luck

J

Originally Posted by JamieBeeston

I dont see why anyone would ban files over a certain size.. unless they have unworkable limits (ie unlimited transfer and disk) in place

Yes, many of the con-artists aka "unlimited" hosts use file type, size, db record limits etc to ensure that you are artificially "limited" some other way