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[mag2008]

I have 250-450 dollar budget to beging hosting a social network website with live broadcasting and video streaming capabilities-let's say that it will be something similar to www.livevideo.com. I need a hosting company in USA--Texas is a good place. What do you recommend in terms of bandwidth, servers and webhosting company?
any help is welcomed...

[sTag-Dan]

Interesting site. One of the big ones in Texas would be ThePlanet.

[sambates]

You will need quite a powerful server for this depending on how big the site gets. I would recommend beachcomber.net for dedicated servers. Used them in the past and were really good

[mag2008]

please, more answers...

[cristibighea]

Well, you can take a look in the dedicated offers section to see if any particular offer is suited for you, but you need to know exactly what your requirements are in terms of hardware and how much bandwidth you actually plan on using, as that budget might be a bit low for such a site.

[mag2008]

I was told that for the beginning I will need between 2000 and 3000 bandwidth. I don't know if this is enough for live broadcasting? I would love to listen to people who have experience in this field? Does the Planet is the best server for live broadcasting, etc?

[cristibighea]

The Planet might be good, but it all depends where your users are located, what quality the stream will be at, how many people will actually be watching a stream, there are quite a few things to take into consideration.

[mag2008]

My users are going to be located mainly in USA and Latin America, and Spain. Let's say that for the first month 400 people will daily see my website, and that I will stream with high resolution. what do I need for something like that?

[cristibighea]

Well, I'd be looking for a dual core or a low end quad core, 2GB of RAM or more, 100mbps port, and perhaps cPanel, depending how well you can use a server. You will in fact be required to install your own software and manage your server unless you hire a management team to do installations and maintenance on it.

[mag2008]

that sounds good to me but what about the bandwidth and hosting company? Could you give me a few names for hosting company?

[VINAX]

Originally Posted by mag2008

My users are going to be located mainly in USA and Latin America, and Spain. Let's say that for the first month 400 people will daily see my website, and that I will stream with high resolution. what do I need for something like that?

With that users and stream high resolution video, 2TB-3TB bandwidth per month will not enough, so you should be charged for overages. You would need to use high-quality bandwidth and to increase your budget a little bit.

[mag2008]

then, what hosting company do you recommend and what bandwidth? Money is not a problem here...

[mag2008]

If you have to choose between theplanet and softlayer for live broadcasting what would you choose...?

[mag2008]

Ok, guys I need more help on this one here. What about hosting companies and bandwidth?

[227b]

it may be worth taking a look at www.dzoic.com , they suggest using http://www.dhshosting.com/dedicated.php for the performance that you are wanting !