Hey Guys- First off, if this in the wrong section, I apologize, it just seemed like the best area for the questions that I have regarding a server. Anywho, I'm looking to open a website for a specific niche of videos and I know that this is going to be eating alot of bandwidth and system resources that more than likely just won't fall under a shared hosting package. I have found the vShare youtube clone style script and I'm thinking of purchasing it tomorrow but it has the following requirements: MySQL (version 4 or higher) PHP (version 4.x) Fmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu) FFmpeg-PHP (http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net) Mplayer + Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html) flv2tool (http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2) Libogg + Libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/downloads) LAME MP3 Encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net) I currently have hostgator.com hosting and it works great, but I know that PHP/MySQL is about the only things out of that list that are installed. My basic question is this; Does buying a dedicated server allow me to install the necessary applications above to run the script? If so, what do you think I would need as a dedicated server? GoDaddy.com has some servers for about 100 dollars a month running a Pentium 4, Fedora Core 4, 500gb Bandwidth, 1gb ram, and 120gb hard drive. Is this a good deal? Thanks for all the help - I'm very familiar with setting up servers, working with servers, but this is the first time trying to purchase a dedicated server so I'm not sure of what my limits are. -N
Your 1st mistake is keeping hostgator. I had semi dedicated and then they said I had to upgrade. I did even tho I know i didnt need to, but I wanted my sites up. They took 4 days to get my sites up after upgrade and then a week later when they couldnt get it fixed right they got mad, called me up and told me to go somewhere else. I had been costumer for over 2 years and they just grew to fast and dont know what they are doing anymore. DONT USE HOSTGATOR FOR HOSTING OF ANY KIND!!
I would stay away from godaddy as well. My only concern would be the pentium4 , since you're pumping out videos, a dual processor would be more beneficial. And, yes when you have a dedicated server, you can pretty much install anything you like.