How to start a live streaming website ?

I embed streams for ustream, so doesn't use much bandwidth at all (theirs instead). You just need the RAM/CPU power to handle all the traffic at once.

Hit me up with a PM if you need a hand or any tips - I'd happily chat on IM/Skype if you like.

I'm interested in this as well. Anyone have any hosting companies that provide a lot of bandwidth, I plan to do live streaming with original content so I'm not worried with copyrights

If it's legal - I'd recommend theplanet.com - that's where Hostgator get their servers from.

You will need A LOT of bandwidth though!

Don't do it yourself... that's just silly... with like thousands of people streaming everything that's going on already, it just doesn't make any sense for you to put any more risk on yourself than you should....

Simply find reliable sources that stream live content and embed/iframe/link to it... obviously monetize prior to directing the user to their desired content

Monedtizing it shouldnt be a problem, more getting the people to actually visit will.

jake3340 said:

Monedtizing it shouldnt be a problem, more getting the people to actually visit will.

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It's actually quite easy if you have some common sense... instead of trying to outrank millions of sites for "live streaming"... ranking for "team a vs team b live / streaming / highlights" is quite simple

hmmm, actually i know a company that offer 24/7 streaming via FMS server, windows media server, shoutcast, and icecast.
Depend very much on how you do it with then. They have 24/7 tech support, they help people to stream, and they don't care about the material that you streaming as long as you are not reported by someone.
IF you are smart you can do it very easy.
Recommended a flash server, where you can protect your stream if you know flash and allow people to look on your stream only from a certain website.
On windows media hosting you can select an username and a password for the stream, and each one they want to look at stream they must enter that username and password. (all users they login with same username and password, if you want to add for each user to have it different you will need a windows media streaming dedicated server)
Icecast very nice feature that allow you to add via an admin user and password for each user..... in that way you control who is looking on your stream, you can start a PPV site very easy.....if you want to know the name of a company pm and i will recommend you a company.

meathead1234 said:

I've struggled to find a good offshore - mainly because you need an excellent dedicated server, not shared or anything like that. I had 70k UV's in about half an hour with the fight last weekend, so you need something that can handle a lot of traffic.

If anyone has any recommendations I'd love to hear them

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Mind me asking how much $ you raked in last weekend with that much ?

I was doing this about 3 and a half years ago. We used to stream small low quality events for free in fully. And around 10-15 minutes from the BIG events then cut the transmission because of "technical dificulties" and make them join through our own merchant to watch it in high resolution.

At those times FMS wasn't quite the norm (at least for us lol), we had a windows media server running on a 1gbps port and two broadcasting pcs with kickass hardware and hq tv cards. We also used a dedicated link to re-broadcast the signal to our server. Yes, it was expensive, but rewarding as well.

On good days, we used to hit up to 100 joins a day on those big games.

Then ustream.tv, mogulus.com and all those sites came up and made us lose our business. Even thou we had a near HD quality for the time (around 750kbps constant bitrate) people preferred to watch the games in shitty cheap flash. That killed our business. They weren't transmissions from USA or EU anyway, i would be careful to go with your own setup in that case.

Hope this helps

I think you can check out this website called freedocast or something like that. I think it lets you feed stuff off of your comp to the net.

You won't have any problems steaming in the US!
Check this site - http://0123456789xyz0123456789.blogspot.com/2009/11/supernatural-season-5-episode-9-real.html
It's hosted at blogger and still posting tv ripped episodes.

iam planing to make a sport live streaming website too but only for north africa region

can you guys tell me an hosting company for live streaming website...