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[fanatic22b]

My brother and I are looking for hosting primarily for my brother who is a video editor who is looking for a job (needs to host his work/videos). I'd say speed and reliability are most important. The video files will likely be pretty big (200-300mb), but it's not likely the website itself will be that extensive, mostly just the file hosting (although as we learn more it could change). I'm thinking around 5-10gb storage and 100gb transfer would fit us best, and I don't really want to spend more than $5-10 dollars a month.

So far Downtownhosting and Syn Hosting have caught my eye, I was curious as to if anyone had any other suggestions.


Thanks

[Jedito]

Thanks for considering us, just an small correction.
It's DowntownHost

[fanatic22b]

my mistake; by chance do you have a speed test file for download?

[Soskel34]

if you just need file hosting, ASO offers some good plans.

What cp do you prefer?

[fanatic22b]

The plans at ASO don't really seem to fit my need/budget (atleast the ones I'm looking at, maybe I'm in the wrong place). Really solid on the 5-10gb of storage and at least 100gb of transfer.

Consider me a web novice, I wouldn't say I have a control panel preference, although later on it could change as I learn more.

[gate2vn]

pay attention that you will need to pay at least 6 months once to fit your budget. Beside it, I have heard good things about Downtownhost too

[Chris Reed]

You should have no problem getting those specs for how much you want to spend.

Best of luck to your brother finding a job. : O)

[mrmoko]

I don't think 100G of bandwidth is enough for your website, considering that the average size of your video files is 200-300mb. I'm sure there are lots of hosting plans that has more than 100G of bandwidth and which is only less than $10 a month.

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[JLHC]

Well, make sure you look up this forum before deciding.

[CretaForce]

Originally Posted by fanatic22b

my mistake; by chance do you have a speed test file for download?

DownTownHost uses many different datacenters/providers. I recommend you to ask them to provide speed test files from different servers so you can choose the better from your location.

[Shaw Networks]

$5 for all that disk space and bandwidth will be hard to come by. You might want to consider hosting the large video files with a third party file host and only pay a web host for the hosting of the website itself.

[Orien]

Originally Posted by Shaw Networks

$5 for all that disk space and bandwidth will be hard to come by. You might want to consider hosting the large video files with a third party file host and only pay a web host for the hosting of the website itself.

In a similar fashion, you can always get a reliable non-overselling plan for just your website and purchase a bulk overselling package at one of the reputable companies for your videos.

[fanatic22b]

Originally Posted by mrmoko

I don't think 100G of bandwidth is enough for your website, considering that the average size of your video files is 200-300mb. I'm sure there are lots of hosting plans that has more than 100G of bandwidth and which is only less than $10 a month.

There won't be more than two files that would be that big, the rest being just smaller segments, I'm pretty sure 100gigs per month should be ok.

[ShadowStriker]

Originally Posted by fanatic22b

the rest being just smaller segment

how many and how small?

[fanatic22b]

I'd have to ask him, I don't know what all he wants to share.