What's the best (and taking into account the cheapest) hosting website that would meet the needs of a movie website? Thanks in advance
I can offer you cheap offshore hosting in France. http://www.hostamus.com/cart.php/?gid=3 We allow movie sites. You can also use promo code FIRSTFREE for first months free hosting.
No you'r not allowed to host the movie on our servers, just link to it. I already host many warez forums/movie sites/porn sites
Isn't this illegal? Even posting links on a movie site ? I was going to do this but figured I didn't want to get in trouble.. I am from the U.S. does anyone have insite on this
I think you are fine as long as your host is not in the US. It's best to get offshore or totally anonymous hosting.
LongBanana's right in the hole with that answer, pardon the expression Anybody think that I'd need unlimited bandwidth? Considering the size of movies. A complete newbie at this So I can't embed videos into my pages that can be played as a streaming fie in a browser? Editted to post this quote
for movie hosting you should go for a dedicted server or atleast vps pm me I can provide you both very fast and reliable
Even if you offshore host the domain name can be looked up .. even if whois is on . They will give up your info if your doing something illegal
You can embed videos from sites like Megavideo and other with no problems. You just are not allowed to host the movie/tv show files on my servers.
The EU is not far behind the US with all the lobbying that the Creatives industry is doing. Very soon you will need to look at alternatives outside Europe and the US.
So you can't get in trouble for posting the links to the movies when you are from the US ? I read that even posting links to megavideo will get you sued ..
It's the same penalty in the US as burning a DVD and selling it, it could land you some serious jail time / fines.
One last question, do videos embedded from other websites count as bandwidth from your host? Thanks to all of you for your help so far, trying to decide how much bandwidth will be needed now!
No, if you embed a MegaVideo vid in your site, its their bandwidth used when someone hits the play button, not yours. All that would count to yours is the text and graphics you put around it. Even most ads are hosted offsite I believe, like adsense etc. and affiliate banners. ~|ChaRoN|~
Thanks for your quick reply, do you think that 100GB bandwidth is more than suffice for starting up then? Given that really generalised calculations point me towards getting at absolute maximum 75K visitors a month as a starting point with my current game plan. EDIT: Now I've thought about it, that'll mean my page would have to be 1.33MB in size; to be frank that's probably enough, considering I highlyyyy doubt I'll get near my maximum views this month. Thanks again anyway
Yeah, I would think that would be plenty to start with, your site template will use next to no bandwidth, since it will be mainly text and a few small images. Even if you are getting up to the top of your limit, you're host will have an option to upgrade your bandwidth. ~|ChaRoN|~
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