Hosting Recommendations for Clickbank Product Owner with membership site and large video...

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Hey Warriors!

I have a Clickbank Product that I am going to launch soon. I have been working on it for a few years (yes a few years lol...)

Anyway, the product will be sold with a rather long sales video explaining the product.

If they buy the product they will be sent to a membership site on a subdomain.

The site will be built with Wordpress, OptimizePress, either DAP or Wishlist (haven't decided yet), Easy Video Suite in the members area to play all the videos, and Easy Video Suite to play the sales video (unless you'll all recommend another solution for the homepage sales video)...

Anyway, what hosting solutions should I use for this? The 2 most important things are ...(1) uptime (even if there are large traffic spikes) and (2) cost effectiveness.

So with that being said, should I host the site at a traditional host like say WiredTree or a Cloud Solution ..like RackSpace? Rackspace seems quite expensive if the site gets popular (maybe I'm wrong though?).

And should I host my sales videos and membership content videos on S3, cloudfront, etc? - I really want to make sure everyone can see my videos and people aren't having lagging time or some error.


Any suggestions would be very much appreciate with any of my questions. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author TheWebGuy
    ...and as a side note: I am in no way a hosting expert/tech guy. I want to focus on the business side of this (so I'm assuming I'd have to use managed hosting solutions)...
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  • Profile picture of the author zcrafts
    For hosting you can try dedicated server and for your large video why not use youtube to host video and just add them to your site, this will reduce lot of load or your website.

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    • Profile picture of the author TheWebGuy
      Is there problems using YouTube? I actually use to hear a lot of people say don't host your sales video on YouTube ...but it looks like a lot of larger product owners are using them now. Why is this?

      Can't YouTube just take down your video at anytime? Or are they pretty solid now?

      Basically, I only want people to be able to watch the video is they are on my Homepage (no embedding on other sites, and I don't want people to be able to download the video either... is this possible with YouTube?)
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  • Profile picture of the author Weblover50
    With youtube, you won't be able to protect it as you want. Youtube is a video sharing site, not a video hiding site. I don't see any problem with using Youtube for sales video, after all you want maximum people to see it, right?

    Something like S3 / any specialist paid video hosting service that allow protecting your video should be good for the video for members.

    People tend to grossly overestimate the traffic when they start, especially on their first project. If you get more than traffic that can be handled on a shared host to a clickbank site, you should be a millionaire in no time. Seriously, you can't expect that kind of a traffic. There is a 99% possibility that you will struggle to get 100 people visiting your site everyday.

    You can always upgrade hosting within few hours. Don't pay for the resources you don't need today.
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  • Profile picture of the author Weblover50
    With youtube, you won't be able to protect it as you want. Youtube is a video sharing site, not a video hiding site. I don't see any problem with using Youtube for sales video, after all you want maximum people to see it, right?

    Something like S3 / any specialist paid video hosting service that allow protecting your video should be good for the video for members.

    People tend to grossly overestimate the traffic when they start, especially on their first project. If you get more than traffic that can be handled on a shared host to a clickbank site, you should be a millionaire in no time. Seriously, you can't expect that kind of a traffic. There is a 99% possibility that you will struggle to get 100 people visiting your site everyday.

    You can always upgrade hosting within few hours. Don't pay for the resources you don't need today.
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    Hosting specials - Hostgator Review and Inmotion Coupon

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  • Profile picture of the author TheWebGuy
    Thank you for your input...

    For the protected membership content, does anyone have experience between these services:

    S3+EasyVideoSuite vs VimeoBusiness vs Self Hosted
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