Hosting Videos on Mobile Website
 

I need to have a mobile website featuring 5 high school football teams promoting the "play of the week" each week. I will be using the Lime Cellular mobile website builder.
My question is, can I successfully host them on my hostgator account or do I need to use Vimeo?
Any ideas will be appreciated.

PS this is time sensitive, I need to know soon.

Re: Hosting Videos on Mobile Website
 

Videos should never really be hosted on your website server nowadays. The web standard for videos is some type of CDN network such as Amazon S3. You can use free video services such as Youtube or Vimeo but they aren't recommended for this type of purpose because you will leak traffic back to those sites.

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Vimeo would be the better option over your hostgator account.

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Really anything is better than your own server/hosting account. If you are deadset on hosting it yourself for protection reasons you can use a CDN (like Amazon S3).
Otherwise as it was said previously vimeo.
But youtube, viddler, live leak, etc etc. are also options.
Good luck
PS remember to encode the videos in MP4 for your iOS friends

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Yes, and the free program Handbrake will do this for you.

HandBrake

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You can use Youtube and take some of the video controls away so they can't click to the youtube website.

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Yes if your using a WP site, there are several good quality Video plugins available that will allow you to control the viewing options, and block them from going back to YouTube for example. That said, it doesn't sound like your to concerned about losing any traffic, however the cure is there for you

Re: Hosting Videos on Mobile Website
 

Thanks for the advice. This customer is willing to pay so based on your advice will get a vimeo pro account at 199 yr. Can I post the mobile site here for critique without getting an infraction? :)

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So long as it's not a template or similar sold by someone on this forum who doesn't want their code shared on this forum. Images are usually best as opposed to the real code.

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Well, bad news. I spent the $200 and the vids wont play on my phone, Droid Bionic.

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Is Vimeo mobile friendly?

Make sure there are no options you need to check that allow the video to be played on mobile devices. There is such as option in Youtube so it's possible Vimeo has the same option.

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Yes it is, but not "not paying attention" friendly. I was using the wrong link for mobile. Here it is....Permission Denied

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It says permission denied?

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No, I put a link in there to the vid your forum changed it to permission denied.

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It's not MY forum but ok. I'm not sure why that's happening. Maybe your video can only be played on certain domains.

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Hey Tracourt
Now a days you can not host your videos successfully on your own server. You have to use services like you tube or you can also use Vimeo, but you will transfer your traffic to these websites and if the videos are informative you will even get traffic from them.
Since these videos will be on a mobile website try to upload videos in MP4 format for people using iPhone devices.

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Depends on your target audience - if your servers are based in the US and your wanting to deliver video globally you would be far better off with a CDN it would provide much faster download speeds than your regular hosting account say from Hostgator/Godaddy, etc.