Im going to make a website like youtube i just want to know some things: How much for a custom script? How much diskspace/bandwidth will i need? How do i promote? Thanks.
Don't. Just don't, you have all odds against you. Anyways, a good script will run you about $100-$500. I recommend Rayzz. Diskspace/Bandwidth? A lot. A f***g lot. No host is going to allow you the amount you need. If you want it to be good (even if it isn't big!), you're going to have to get your own servers, and that would run you for thousands of dollars, for only one server. Promotion? Make it viral. Pretty hard to do if you ask me, with competition like Youtube, and such. Do you know how many youtube clones there are out there? More than just a few... If you don't have multiple thousands of dollars, you're probably not going to succeed. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's how I see things :s Cheers
if you live in iran you can be rich because iran has no copyright rules or w/e So you can start your own free online movies or something.. and pick up some cheap hosting offshore ftw but its illegal if u dont live in iran lol ==================================== Well anyhow you will get a lot of people uploading copyrighted material then you will have to delete them.. its very very annoying
Apart from the high cost of hosting and server hardware, you need to ensure that you are well protected legally from lawsuits and cease and desist orders especially when your members uploads and downloads copyright contents without the content providers' permission. You will need a proactive compliance team to actively remove undesirable contents.
Aaah, you guys are joking... I was going to go into a really good niche too and i was pretty sure it would work. had a spot on domain aswell for the niche.. :/ lets just say it was [sport].tv
So does almost every new site nowadays, but quite a few of them break through. However, i reccomend oyu dont do it
I have never tried creating a site like youtube before, but I know how to make a promotion, do the off page optimization, you can try link exchange, posting your site's preview at a certain forums and social networking..
I dont want to upload illegal content.. Basically its a relitivley small sport im doing it on but the sport is growing fast! Basically alot of the people who do the sport go on 1 forum. I want to provide for these people an alternitive for when their uploading their videos of themselves taking part in the sport. I thought the domain was excellent!? [sportname].tv
Could this handle a site like youtube? (obviously not as big as youtube) VPS 2.4GHZ Guaranteed CPU 4 IP address 512MB Ram with 1GB Burst CentOS 5/Fedora 100GB Hard Drive Space cPanel + WHM 11 500GB Bandwidth Monthly
That's more then enough to get started. You have a small niche you are targeting so don't worry about the bandwidth just yet. However, make sure you do have a plan of action for when you outgrow your current hosting plan. Don't let people tell you there is no money in video sites...if you go niche, you have a good chance of making money. As for copyright issues, 99% of the time you will receive a letter/email to take down the video. If you don't comply, then you get sued. Just make it easy for people to contact you if they find their content on your site and want it removed. As for scripts, check my signature
I think you got a great plan there sounds like unique content and you already thinking ahead on ways to make money with it. BUT I'm feeling a rant coming on I can't tell you how many post I read (not just at DP) saying what so many have said in this thread. Some have no clue what they are talking about BTW. They say: Don't try it won't work The cost of a good script can go as high as 500.00 The cost of a server is way to expensive. You'll need way more bandwidth then you can afford The days of making money on a Video Share site are over. What is true at this point creating revenue thru running ads on "general" video sharing websites has become a very competitive market to enter With the exception of porn. There are excellent Video Scripts that are free not $500.00 Now the money can be made in niche video sharing websites just like you are talking about. First off to a great degree your success in this case will be based on only one thing. That is the soundness of your concept. One of the issues of watching sports video on-line is that lots of motion looks pixilated because of the menthods used to encode it. So not much of it is done successfully We have a proprietary encoding process that makes watching fast motion as in sports look great Even at Full Screen! Here is what I'm willing to do......... I'll bank roll your project. Server space, software, bandwidth, marketing you name it. We will give it 30 days.... after that if all goes well you can start to pay for the resources yourself out of the money you are making. If we are close to making it self sufficient but it's not quite there yet after 1 month I'll pay the bills for another 30 days. I just ask that you do a blog, or post in this thread on how your project is going. Whatever happens good, bad whatever let everyone knows who is interested in seeing how this goes what your experiences are. If you are serious about your success together we will get you there You can follow the links in my sig to see some of examples as to what I'm referring too. www.theworkingdogschannel.com/ The above link isn't finished yet but has some fast motion clips in it and some old vhs-tapes where the quality isn't as good as todays video cameras. I can get you some links to additional clips to view. The quality of a viewers experience is based on the quality of the video input and internet connections speed. In addition full screen viewing is impacted by your video card. Let me know what you decide.
There are scripts available from free to a few hundred dollars. Try phpmotion, Clip-share etc Look for a web host that provides ffmpeg hosting so you can encode and stream videos easily. Yes you'll need a lot of server resources and bandwidth once the site gets popular so a VPS or semi-dedicated is the way to go for now, but you'll probably want a dedeicated server eventually. Andrew
First , you need a good host without downtime. Then, you need a higher bandwidth and disk space. Also check for file size limitations.
You can get your own custom made script made that would be able to encode HD quality for around 10k. Just remember that if the original footage wasn’t shot in HD the encoded streams won’t create HD quality. In every case the best you can do is create the same quality that you started with. There are probably at least a 100 different video scripts on the market today you can find a list of most of them here http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Multimedia/more7.html I’m not sure how up to date this list but it’s safe to say that there are more at the moment. I have heard that there are as many as 5000 video share scripts downloaded every day Keep in mind thats a combination of free and paid downloads. And there are many that are free that that can be modified to work with HD encoding. I would think that you would be better off hiring someone to modify an existing script as opposed to starting from scratch. Is there some functionality of the available scripts on the market that you are looking for? Remember that the script itself can be like a frame that you can hang many different website designs on them This is one segment of the market that you don't necessarily get more by paying more.primarily due to the fact that many are open source and have many members contributing to the improvement of the script Take a look at the various scripts that have large forums whose members are available to offer you assistance at the drop of a hat. The forums are also a good source for getting an idea how many happy campers there are using that particular script. Keep in mind that the old mantra that "content is king." and turns out to be far more important to commercial success then quality.