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[kritan]

I am working on a video clips sites
I think I am going to use WMV files
My site will use the gamescript script
Regarding hosting how is bigdaddy?
Since my site will be new and it will take me time to upload movies and get people no need to order from the start a big expensive hosting plan.
But if you have some tips it will be nice.
What about hot linking what can I do?
Thank you all

[Kase]

What's "bigdaddy"? You mean Go Daddy?

[kritan]

yes Go Daddy
LLLLOL

[Kase]

They, and almost all others don't allow hosting WMV files, especially if that's all you're going to be uploading.

[kritan]

I am not going to let people upload movies to my site
All the wmv I am going to upload are legal

[Phrozt]

IIIII love dreeam hoost!

But yeah.. check the http://acmovies.phroztnet.org subdomain of my flagsite. It's got PvP movies from like.. 1 meg up to 77megs.. and people have been downloading those for the past month like crazy.. no problems from DH at all. I just hit day 30 of my "cycle" for bandwidth.. here's the stats:

Today is day #30 (of 30) of your current billing cycle (ends on 2006-05-20).


Currently showing: to
Total Provided:................1032 GB ($1/GB over)
Total Used So Far:.............64.803 GB
Cycle Estimate:................67.038 GB
Estimated Charges:.............$0.00

This information is only updated once per day!

Note: 1 MB = 1,048,576 Bytes; 1 GB = 1,024 MB.


Plan Starting Grows Per Week Growth So Far Currently Provided
My Crazy Domain Insane............1000 GB 8 GB/week +32 GB 1032 GB
Total Account Bandwidth Provided:.1000 GB 8 GB/week +32 GB 1032 GB

Domain (click for details).....BW Throttling..Web MB......MB/Day.......Cycle Estimate

phroztnet.org (web)............Disabled.......456.03 MB...15.725 MB....471.755 MB
acmovies.phroztnet.org (web)...Disabled.......65303.56 MB 2251.847 MB..67555.407 MB

Total Bandwidth Used by Domains for these 29 days: 65759.59 MB 2267.572 MB 68027.162 MB

Any Users with FTP transfer......................FTP MB....MB/Day....Cycle Estimate

acmovie..........................................598.18 MB 20.627 MB 618.807 MB

Total Bandwidth Used by Users for these 29 days: 598.18 MB 20.627 MB 618.807 MB


also, if you want to check out individual stats, go to:

http://acmovies.phroztnet.org/stats
USER: vnnukkas
PW: VND0701

[kritan]

All the wmv I am going to upload are legal and will be at 320 bit rate

[Kase]

Originally Posted by kritan

I am not going to let people upload movies to my site
All the wmv I am going to upload are legal

I understand that. They won't allow YOU to upload that many WMV's to your account.

[kritan]

Is this in their policy?

[Kase]

Yes, it is. It's abusing their service.

[GOLGO-13]

Originally Posted by Kase

Yes, it is. It's abusing their service.

hey kase, there are many things about hosting i dont understand.. could you explain 'why' thats abusing their service?

[Kase]

Sure. Having a large number of WMV files that people are downloading/streaming drains bandwidth very fast. It also takes up a large amount of disk space. Although these resources are rightly allocated to you, you are piling a bunch of high-resource dependent files that take away from the performance of other user accounts on the same server.

[zoobie]

I was going to put my huge wmv's in my GD hosting account linked to my site
May have to rethink this...

[kritan]

Must be a solution for that.
I need a hosting company for my video site
I am not going to be you tube or video google (for now)
Sure someone will want my money : )

[ldcdc]

They, and almost all others don't allow hosting WMV files, especially if that's all you're going to be uploading.

How do you know this is true for Godaddy?