what server requirements are needed to run a video site...

Discussion in 'Apache' started by netpox, Aug 21, 2007.

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    Hello,

    What would you say my minimum requirements are to run a video website kind of like break.com or ebaumsworld.com. This site will have over 500 videos, photos, etc.

    What processor do i need, how much ram? harddrive, etc.

    Please let me know what i really need to look for, i want the videos to load fast, also i want to be price reasonable.
     
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    live-cms_com Notable Member

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    It depends on the traffic.
     
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    Lets say i get about 2000 unique hits per day and about 10,000 page impressions.
     
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    I haven't run a video site but I assume you'd need a LOT of bandwidth. Rendering a video is done by the browser, not the server so I think the server requirements wouldn't be huge except for the bandwidth.
     
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    It depends if you hosted the videos or not!
    If _not_ then shared hosting will do

    If so then say an average of 5mb per video?
    10,000 page views, thats probably 7-8000 actual views of videos
    8,000 * 5 = m3ga bandwidth!! like 4gb a day, 120gb a month
     
    m0nkeymafia, Aug 28, 2007 IP