I am just a newbie and I have a question: What do you think. How much would it cost to let a professional webdesigner make me a videoclip- webpage with a similar structure of youtube or break.com? I mean including login and members area, email adress for users who upload clips? Which bandwidth/ traffic per month would my host need? Do you recommand me a hostprovider? Please only reply if you have enough experience. Thanks Michelangelo
How longs a piece of string? At the end of the day the answer lies in your budget and the quality of design and programming that your expecting. If your also planning on being successful you'll need a very reliable host which provides you with a very high bandwidth and web space - video's obviously arent small files!
I don´t want it for commercial use. I just like the layout. I need it for a communitiy of about 1500 people (university students). How much would it cost to design and host? Wich bandwidth would I need? There would be about 2000 videos and 1000 views a day (just streaming no download). Length of each video about 5 minutes. Please reply if you have experience.
sabian1982 pretty much said it. For a site like youtube you may do with scripts that are readily available in the market. Another pre-requisite is the ffmpeg component on your server so as to convert your videos in to flv. Bandwidth requirements depend on your traffic to the number of videos uploaded. Right from a couple hundred GBs a month to an extremely high amount of bandwidth can be required. Space again depends on size of the videos that you allow, say you allow 100 MB like youtube. Even 50 videos uploaded would take up 5 GB easily ...And that's something close to the minimum. Then comes the design part, so designing and customising can vary a lot on the designer and how well he can do it. I charge anywhere above 300$ for the same depengding on your requirements. Cheers!
Sorry missed this message of yours, I have given you an estimate earlier. 2000 videos is a lot and 1000 views anything more than 2000 streams a day! That would mean a lot of bandwidth too! Your best bet would be a dedicated server. Since those high bandwidth plans often don't live up to their assurance! Abhishek
The videos would be about 50mb, do you know any host providers that would fit my requirements? Which costs would I have/ month? I would need a webpage that is really easy to handle, I am not that good in html.
You may want to try dreamhost ...www.dreamhost.com They got good plans, and they have some nice promo codes too, that could help you save upto 80$ on your hosting plan! Just ask someone you know who uses them! But before chosing any host, enquire if they have the ffmpeg component, otherwise you will have problems in running the script! Abhishek
Of course if this is a project for a specific university, you could approach the university and perhaps look at using their Intranet - this would obviously mean bandwidth wouldnt be so much of a issue as users would be accessing the information locally (in some sense of the word) as apposed to having to download it off the internet. This obviously will cause implecations for people external to the intranet who do not have access. Just a thought...
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. Check out MediaTemple. They may have some type of flash communications server...there may be an app out there already written.
He has mentioned his requirements and I don't think he would require "THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS" as you screamed in your post! And what will a FCS do here ? FFMpeg pretty much does it! Abhishek
I'm sorry ABHISHEK, I was having trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE. hehe. FCS does a killer job at streaming flash video...which seems to have a better standard of viewing cross-platform than mpeg players in my opinion.
FFMpeg isn't an MPEG player. It works by converting WMV, MOV et al movies to FLV so that the web-based flv player can stream them It makes a lot of difference since the size of flv files are very less as compared to WMV, MOV or other video files. From the wiki page :
Well then that looks pretty groovy. FLVs are the way to go...but should they be should be streamed from a media server.
Michelangelo I think you are not aware that this not a webpage, but an entire script which requires backend databases, controlled by a scriptting language like PHP or ASP, or cgi whatever you use, and 1 security hole can result in loss of entire database or even spam troubles, which could bring legal troubles for you. It's nothing like designing a webpage... In addition to this, you will have to monitor that noone uploads an illegal, copyrighted video or you could end up in too much trouble. (Specially when your users are college students.) As for your bandwidth, you can start with a good "shared" hosting pack and when you see the service getting popular, either buy a dedicated server from same host, or switch to a dedicated server. A good host will help you transfer your files. This will bring down your starting cost a lot. Plus if for any reason your service doesn't get popular, you will not end up in too much loss. Once you have a "script" ready, all you need to do is pay someone to design a very good template for you, which should not cost more than $50-$100 or close, including graphics... Bye
50-100$ for a template, alright! But I guess you should understand that we are talking php here! Which will mostly have their design editable via the tpl files! Now integrating this 50-100$ design onto the script would require more work, don't you think ?
It's not required to use TPL files. A simple html file can also be used for template. Other HTML tags used inside PHP script can easily be controlled by CSS. One can also use a PHP file as a template to generate meta, title or "any other information" on the fly. It's just a simple "echo" of the variable derived by the script. And even if someone wants to use TPL's, they are also not that hard to modify. I think $100 is a lot of money for a template, even with TPL or whatever... Bye