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cucumberdude:
Actually, my webhost allows infinite disk space and whatnot and I only pay 4ish dollars a month.
Space is cheap these days, I don't doubt the website's capabilities to stream 30min video - as far as Jeep's ability to set it up, I don't know, I haven't seen his work or anything. Just saying that technically, it is possible.
Ephialtes:
--- Quote from: cucumberdude on March 15, 2011, 08:56:21 PM ---Actually, my webhost allows infinite disk space and whatnot and I only pay 4ish dollars a month.
Space is cheap these days, I don't doubt the website's capabilities to stream 30min video - as far as Jeep's ability to set it up, I don't know, I haven't seen his work or anything. Just saying that technically, it is possible.
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You really think for $4 a month you get the bandwidth and I/O to stream HD video? Do you have any idea how these "infinite hosting" setups work? It's a bunch of virtual machines packed as tightly as possible hooked up to some massive SAN. There's no way you'll get anywhere near the resources you need to provide an HD video service.
Not to mention, if the physical limitations don't stop you, the terms of service will.
Jeep:
--- Quote from: DarkLight ---Yes, the host would close it, but not if the files where remotely hosted on a server that allows it.
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--- Quote from: DarkLight ---Changed server to use lighthttpd, which is used to power big sites like youtube for example.
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Tom:
Switching to a more lightweight server software and storing the videos on a different server wouldn't fix anything. The problem with video hosting is the ungodly amount of bandwidth you have to use. If you could host HD video off a $4 hosting plan, Youtube would barely have any advertisements.
Jeep:
To prove that this isn't a joke or just a "project", we are moving over to a 7 thousand dollar server. Does that reassure some of you? I'll get the specs:
Two Intel Xeon L5640 processors (twelve physical 2.26ghz cores on QPI + hyperthreading + turbo)
48 GB registered DDR3 ECC memory
Four 1TB SATA drives in RAID 10
15TB of InterNAP bandwidth
Price: $7,188/year.
Also I think this solves the video issue.