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How To Host Large Video Sites?

by Mary Green
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Can anyone tell me a good way to host large video sites? I would really appreciate it, I only have a reseller account on hg right now and Im pretty sure it wouldnt be big enough.

Mary
#amazon ec2 #amazon s3 #host #large #sites #video
  • Profile picture of the author Kyle Tully
    Hi Mary

    I'm in the process of moving a few of my bigger video-based sites over to Amazon S3, so far so good.

    I made a post in the War Room about how to use S3 to secure private content that you might find interesting.

    Cheers
    Kyle
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  • Profile picture of the author Mary Green
    Thanks Kyle, I will check that out, any idea on the cost?

    Mary
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Deegan
    Here you go Mary...(this is streaming in the USA only)

    United States

    Storage

    • $0.150 per GB - first 50 TB / month of storage used
    • $0.140 per GB - next 50 TB / month of storage used
    • $0.130 per GB - next 400 TB /month of storage used
    • $0.120 per GB - storage used / month over 500 TB
    Data Transfer

    • $0.100 per GB - all data transfer in
    • $0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
    • $0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
    • $0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out
    • $0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB
    Requests

    • $0.01 per 1,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests
    • $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
    Link to pricing page (they have a handy cost calculator) - Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
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    • Profile picture of the author Kyle Tully
      As above, S3 is dirt cheap.

      I've got about 4 gigs in there and it's costing me a few cents each month.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mary Green
    Can you do all your hosting that way, or just the vids?

    Mary
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    • Profile picture of the author Kyle Tully
      It wasn't designed to be used as a typical web host.

      Although there are workarounds such as iframing a single page on your regular host and pulling the actual page from S3.

      But it's really more for storage.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Deegan
    I don't think you can host a site, but it can be used for all forms of data storage and retrieval. So if you want to centralize where all your products are stored and downloaded from it may provide an ideal solution. The advantage being you're not using your websites resources to serve files.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Taylor
    You can use Amazon's EC2 service to run a full blown webserver.

    Of course, you have to know what you're doing. Running your own show means no webserver customer support.

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
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