Dedicated Server Or VPS would be best for me?

Hello,

I have started a new video sharing service in which I am going to host my videos on my own network. The script was started with digitalocean.com but I have seen that videos were not played quite in a good manner. They have a slow network connection. Sometimes speeds are awesome and usually they can't even play a 10mb video properly.

I have a small budget and I require large space so I was planning to go with interserver VPS for $6 per slice and an additional space of 100GB for $1 as they said me. I am again worried about the speeds because I have used then before and according to wget cachefly.net test the download speed is just 2-3mb/s.

Can somebody tell me of a high speed VPS service or what if I purchase there dedicated server. Can somebody tell me about the dedicated server speed tests.

My website is http://www.trueflick.com. You guys can test the awful speeds I have to face but sometimes like yesterday night (according to my time) the speeds went to 44-50mb/s download speeds and they were awesome but whole day it is 2-3mb/s which does not even plays a video.

Thanks. Looking forward for replies.

 

Budget?

1- what you need is a DEDICATED server line

the servers claiming to be selling servers on a 100mbps lines are actually shared lines, meaning many servers on the same 100mbps line

server line costs about 1.5-2.5$ per mbps of speed, how can they give you a 100mbps line( cost 150-250$) themselves and then give you a server for 60-100$?

if you have a good budget

use cloudflare as cdn
use 2-3 servers, and serve videos with static domains ( amazon s3+digitalocean combo, or something like that)

and you need 1 good vps with additional 2-3 TB hard disk, that would be a better option if you dont' have much traffic for now.

it will cost you 50-100$ a month steady

however, before you start, make sure you can make at least the cost back with it.

 

I am not sure, why you are looking for Dedicated server directly, I think going for VPS plan is best option compared to Dedicated until unless you really have TBs and thousands of traffic. You will get a better advice from this below link..
http://blog.hostocol.in/post/69130710267/why-you-should-choose-vps-hosting-over-dedicated

 

I'd suggest dedicated server for your video sharing site. You will get dedicated uplink and downlink. So you won't face any issue for speed.

 

Think small ( VPS ), and grow from there.

 

You can test your network speed and i/o with this script:

wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash

Code (markup):

Also you could do take some MTR tests to see if there's any packetloss.

DigitalOcean is reputable provider - you could contact the support to check if there's any issue with the network. Also check if you've enabled the VirtIO driver.

You might be able to run the website on VPS, but it depends on the CPU/i/o requirements of your website. Also your website is currently showing "default cPanel page" - you might want to check that.

 

If your resource needs are not great, it may be smart to start with a VPS plan and scale up as needed before eventually going to a dedicated server. A dedicated server is going to be significantly more expensive, but offers increased security. There is now also a class of hybrid servers that straddle both worlds. Take a look at this post, which looks at the different hosting options available. http://www.wiredtree.com/blog/what-are-the-best-hosting-options-for-small-and-medium-businesses/