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Varzi Network · 05-05-2008, 08:25 PM

Hentaikid im not against you making money by being honest. But here you advise someone to use Dreamhost to store these huge videos that will or may end up on tubes. We both know that wont fly very long and they will suspend that persons account when he starts hammering the server.

I don't know if you were aware that to many concurrent Video sessions made by large movies can actually crash a server. Even lots of smaller videos with many sessions that begin to stack due to the few on slower connections can actually kill a server. Video hosting on shared hosting in general is for the most part a bad idea due to the load it can generate. I have a customer on a 50GB plan and ended up pushing a sustained 40Mbps by submitting a number of 3-5Mb video clips to various tube sites. Finally the load he created along with hundreds of other sites on that same server caused problems. Instead of shutting his account when he had not responded over 24hrs later we simply blocked the videos. I doubt many lower priced alternatives would be willing to take the time when clicking cancel is much easier.

So to be clear on this not even Dreamhost can offer such a service on cheap shared hosting which is how i know you never did this yourself..

05-05-2008, 08:25 PM	#18 (permalink)
Varzi Network Nigerian Overlord Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 2,701 Points: 15	Hentaikid im not against you making money by being honest. But here you advise someone to use Dreamhost to store these huge videos that will or may end up on tubes. We both know that wont fly very long and they will suspend that persons account when he starts hammering the server. I don't know if you were aware that to many concurrent Video sessions made by large movies can actually crash a server. Even lots of smaller videos with many sessions that begin to stack due to the few on slower connections can actually kill a server. Video hosting on shared hosting in general is for the most part a bad idea due to the load it can generate. I have a customer on a 50GB plan and ended up pushing a sustained 40Mbps by submitting a number of 3-5Mb video clips to various tube sites. Finally the load he created along with hundreds of other sites on that same server caused problems. Instead of shutting his account when he had not responded over 24hrs later we simply blocked the videos. I doubt many lower priced alternatives would be willing to take the time when clicking cancel is much easier. So to be clear on this not even Dreamhost can offer such a service on cheap shared hosting which is how i know you never did this yourself.. __________________ Static hosting (no scripts/mysql) from just $3.50/month includes 35Gb transfer, 350Mb storage, 5 domains and flat $.10/Gb OVERAGES. Contact me to take advantage. (points accepted)