The best place to host your YouTube-like projects and web sites would be a VPS or even better a dedicated hosting server. Now some might ask, what separates these types of scripts (such as PHPmotion) from other scripts out there that don’t seem to be much different.
The differences is the amount of work the server must do to process these videos from .avi, .wmv, .mov and more to .flv files. The FLV format is the format used for most if not all Flash video players. Often with shared hosting environments you are not given access to enough server resources (like CPU and RAM usage) to be able to convert these videos as quickly as you need to.
Here are a few more things that you would find much easier to get installed on a dedicated server:
- LAME MP3 Encoder
- Libogg + Libvorbis
- Mencoder
- Mplayer
If you plan on becoming popular (and who doesn’t these days) you will want to be able to support as many users as you can and with this type of script, shared hosting just does not cut the cake.
So the next time you decide you want your web site or planned project needs a little more power behind it, a dedicated hosting plan might be the better way to go in the long run.
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