Dynamic Business VOD OTT OVD Hosting
| VOD Host Unit | |
|---|---|
| Disk Space | 200 Gb ~ 85 hours of 5Mbps 720p videos |
| Bandwidth | 1000 Gb / month ~ 440 hours monthly watch time for 5Mbps videos |
| Disk IO | 5Mb/s (18Gb/h) ~ high speed content uploads |
| Processing | 1 Gb RAM & 1 CPU Core |
| Site Script Installation | WP, VideoShareVOD, MicroPayments WordPress with Blog, Members, Videos, Pictures |
| Setup/Resize Fee | 0$ (free) |
| Monthly Price | 20$ / month |
| Order (monthly) | |
| Yearly Price | $200 (save $40/year) |
| Order (yearly) |
After ordering, send the domain/subdomain you want to use with account in a ticket.
How to Use Dynamic VOD Hosting?
These hosting plans include technical capabilities to run own video website with your own content and users, on your own domain.
→ Dynamic VOD Hosting: Setup and resize VOD hosting accounts as necessary, by ordering required number of units.
You can order new units or cancel subscriptions as you wish from one month to another, to adjust resources to project requirements.
Minimum account size is 1 unit and maximum 20 units (you can add multiple units to card or contact for an order link).
→ cPanel & WordPress Toolkit for easy WordPress installation/management. With WP Toolkit you can easily deploy and managed WP installations from hosting control panel, add/remove/toggle plugins/themes, generate/restore backups, improve site security.
→ Installation assistance is included:
– Requires pointing a domain to hosting name servers or a subdomain by A record to hosting IP. A domain or subdomain is required for web access and issuing SSL certificate for HTTPS. If you don’t have a domain, yet, register a domain with free whois privacy (use coupon: videowhisper).
Please make sure you register a non-offensive domain that meets Terms of Use and will not cause disruptions with service providers (domain registrars, data centers, billing websites).
– After pointing a domain or subdomain to compatible hosting, contact VideoWhisper by tickets to deploy WordPress with VideoWhisper plugins like VideoShareVOD, MicroPayments (author subscriptions, paid content, donations/crowdfunding), Picture Gallery, Rate Star Review, recommended performance & security plugins.
– After original installation, you can add other themes/plugins, customize settings as you wish and have full access to files and data (by cPanel, FTP, WP backend). Installation does not include premium plugins/services, configuration of business specific details like billing/terms or customizations.
→ Multisite support: Each unit supports 4 parked (multisite) domains.
→ CPanel automated transfer: Automated transfer of CPanel account from other web host that provide WHM or cPanel.
In case of different hosting type or restrictions, our staff can also suggest solutions for transferring WP site with other methods. That usually involves copying files by FTP and importing MySQL data with phpMyAdmin. You can also use other backup/migration plugins/solutions.
→ Assistance for upgrading to to more advanced plans including turnkey video conferencing, live streaming, as needed.
Clarifications for VOD Hosting Service
- VideoWhisper provides technical solutions exclusively, and not site content. The hosting plans and software installations do not come pre-loaded with any content.
- You fully own, manage and runs the website, on own registered domain. VideoWhisper does not provide content, user data, legal or financial advice, domain registration, billing processing, marketing, graphic design, site management.
- To use hosting features and capabilities, website needs to be deployed on the compatible hosting account. This involves moving existing site or deploying a new WP (that can be done by VideoWhisper staff) on this hosting account. Video site software will not run remotely on another host that does not meet the video capability requirements.
- Hosting account can be used by pointing a domain (configuring name servers from registrar) or subdomain (configuring A records from main domain host).
SSL is issued and HTTPS is configured automatically, in less than 24h after domain/subdomain propagates to new hosting. - Subscriptions are billed automatically until canceled and service is renewed on each charge. Subscriptions can be canceled anytime from the billing site where order was placed. Cancellation can be done from billing site where you ordered (Stripe, BlueSnap, PayPal), not by technical support. If you wish to terminate a subscription, make sure you cancel it before next billing date, to stop renewal.
– If you ordered on Stripe, use Stripe Customer Portal to manage your subscription and billing details, with your order email, pe Stripe Terms.
– If you ordered on BlueSnap, you can Manage billing details / subscriptions / invoices – web based and automated (does not involve support), on billing site per BlueSnap billing Terms and Conditions. To manage BlueSnap billing, you can retrieve credentials from their site (use order number and order email to get account details), for each order. - Services can only be provided to websites that meet all legal requirements for their specific activity/content and do not abuse network:
– Copyrights Terms: As hosting servers are located in Canada, the Notice and Notice Regime applies (not US DMCA).
– Usage Terms: VideoWhisper Terms of Use apply, Support Policy .
Video Hosting Features
Regular budget web hosts don’t include necessary video tools like ffmpeg and html5 codecs. Ex: HostGator, GoDaddy.
There are multiple video hosting budget providers that advertise unlimited space and bandwidth for a few dollars.
The secret behind budget host offers is hosting hundreds of sites on a server and hidden terms and practices. In example:
- processing limitations that kill demanding processes like video conversion for bigger files (including memory, cpu, simultaneous processes)
- space limitations that apply for video / file sharing sites as exception to “unlimited space”, in hidden terms
- upload limitations that prevent users from uploading big videos
- restrictive resource limitations that slows your site as soon as it begins to have some traffic
- shared bandwidth on 10Mbps or 100 Mbps shared connection for hundreds of sites where you will not be able to use much of the “unlimited” bandwidth
- prices they list are for very long term like 3 years, so webmasters commit before being able to test on monthly basis or use for limited time projects/experiments: while tests with few users can go smoothly at beginning, when load increases site can no longer handle the large volume of traffic due to limited resources
Our main business is live video streaming software and we provide realistic hosting plans where our client sites can fully work and perform. All our plans are premium, with advanced functionality, on powerful servers and networks that host a limited number of premium sites.
Plans we provide use High Speed Networks streaming oriented infrastructure on 1000Mbps servers in high speed datacenter networks with multiple backbone connections totalling thousands of Gbps bandwidth capacity.
1000Mbps connection means 10 times more users can watch videos simultaneously than on regular 100Mbps servers, without performance and reliability issues.
Servers are located in North America and provide low latency high speed transfers worldwide. To evaluate check our live demos.
These plans provide more transfer at higher speed and better price than top video hosting providers for business.
This is a basic requirement for such video hosting solution, demanded for generating snapshots, retrieving information, converting videos to mobile formats.
Includes recent FFMPEG from SVN with basic and main codecs for portability and common web formats: x264, speex, nellymoser, theora, mp3lame, vorbis, ogg, faac, faad2, xvid, opus, x265, vp8, vp9.
Depending on video size, ffmpeg may require lost of memory or CPU time and fail on restrictive budget hosts. Resource allocation must be suitable for video conversions.
On our plans, FFMPEG is installed, configured and updated when necessary by our administrators for everything to work smoothly.
Plans include resources tested to work for regular video processing features.
CPanel is most popular web hosting management control panel to manage http, mysql, email, ftp.
We also provide Softaculous for automated installation for a wide range of scripts including Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Elgg, Dolphin, various classifieds/support desk/gallery/forum/shopping cart scripts.
CPanel and Softaculous also involve additional costs ($45/mo + $15/mo) when setting up your own servers. With our plans these are included.
Video sites have specific requirements that demand specific server side configuration. For these plans, a server administrator is not required to setup and manage the server side configuration as this service is included.
FFMPEG is installed, configured with necessary codecs and updates as needed.
Such services usually require hundreds of dollars for setup and administration subscriptions that are not required for our plans.
Additionally, as we provide complete solutions, our developers can also assist with setting up the site and developing plugins and tools that use all hosting features.
Due to high speed and monthly transfer streaming requirements (video sites usually need to handle Tb of transfer per month), video hosting tends to be much more expensive than regular web hosting that can use budget servers/connections/networks.
With these plans you get 25% to 75% more value compared to best video hosting providers for business.
Most popular video hosting providers demand $500-$900/month for 5Tb/month transfer while you can get this value for considerable lower costs with plans below.
HTTPS: Plans come with AutoSSL, meaning a default SSL certificate is assigned to website. If you have your own certificate, the default one will only be used if yours expires.
Protection: Hosting servers include advanced firewall settings (CSF & LFD), ClamAV antivirus, ModSecurity, configured by our experienced administrators.
Compatibility: Hosting servers include latest CURL and Open SSL to meet eCommerce provider requirements.
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