website building help

monkeyfish9272

does anyone know where i could build a website for free where i could put videos on for people to watch.ie friends and family.need about 6gb of space to put a video on.if i cant do it for free what would be the cheapest way of doing this.

thanks

NellyLock

6 GB of space!? for free?! cant see that happening...if you want that kinda storage space i would be tempted to look at US server providers...but im guessing for that kinda storage space you will be looking at prob bout 10£pm...if you still wanna know more i can tell you the server i use in the states who give large amounts of space...even so i think you should reconsider this kind of set up...it will take ages for you to upload 6gb and also ages for anyone to d/load.

monkeyfish9272

i wanted something where when they go onto the site they just press play button and it plays the film.or even half that amount would do about 2gb is poss.if you could let me know the one you use would help thanks

NellyLock

personally i use dreamhost.com they give huge amounts of bandwidth and a fair amount of space...for a reasonable price. have a look and let me know if you wanna know more...

monkeyfish9272

that one was too much they wanted £120 for that website

anyone know any free ones

NellyLock

monkeyfish9272 wrote:

that one was too much they wanted £120 for that website

anyone know any free ones

120$ not pounds ~ £68py

smcicr

do you really mean gigabytes? what are you trying to show - an actual film (as in cinema / dvd type length)? as the previous poster noted it will take a very long time to upload that amount of data (we're talking days potentially - especially as upload speeds tend to be considerably less than download on most connections).

as for someone just going onto the site and pressing play - have you visited the apple trailer site (http://www.apple.com/trailers/) recently? go take a look, select a trailer and see what happens, it will wait until it has buffered enough to complete the trailer before starting to play the buffered amount. now granted there are other ways of doing things but given that you're talking about gigabytes i don't think it will matter how you do it - it's not going to be pretty.

monkeyfish9272

thanks for that yep wanted to show a film each week but was only gunna give libk to friends and familyhave 4gb broadband normally takes about 8 hours to upload something of film size i have tried sending films to family using streamloader but they too big any other way i could stream or send a film using a free email would help

NellyLock

well there are file sharing tools that allow you to "host" files in a peer 2 peer fashion. unfortunately ad far as i know the forum rules dont allow talking about peer 2 peer technology irrespective of wether it is for legal use becasue most people use them for illegal purposes.

Mr_Skint_2

Hi NellyLock :wave:


Hi Monkeyfish9272

I use https://www.34sp.com might be worth a look

Darksun

Provided your home connection is unlimited (and has a speedy upload), you could set up an FTP server on your computer and let family/friends access the videos that way (while the computer is switched on).

Also, what compression are you using for your videos? Try XViD/DivX, it should get the file sizes down a bit.