Video Hosting. Any Low Cost Solution?
Anyone got crazy about YouTube. Than anyone got crazy about Facebook. People get crazy about various things. When it comes to websites however there are 2 sided - consumers and businesses. while consumers just browse the web for video files and have fun businesses have very different job to do. To find a way to produce and host video on a budget.
Anyone who has any idea about managing video website would tell you that this is pretty expensive business. You don’t need to buy expensive servers to start an online website service provider. Most web businesses still use either shared hosting or VPS hosting. Any video hosting or video sharing website however has to be hosted on very powerful servers. Even a start up video hosting site requires at least $5,000 hardware investment.
If you want to create a video sharing website for example, you’ll need to allow your users to upload at least 100 MB video files. And this is not enough at all because industry leaders like Youtube allow their users to upload up to 1GB video file.
Branded Video Websites
The most used solution from website owners is embed code that imports video files from YouTube, Daily Motion and other videosharing networks on their website. I must admit it works even for business websites and presentations. But if you want to show video files under branded web interface you either need to spend money on website development or to find an video contentn management system. I’ll target your attention to one Video CMS below.
PHP Melody
PHP Melody is Video CMS that allows you to create video sharing network and to organize video files by categories. It is not freeware. It costs €30 ($50) one time fee, but it worths the price because you can deploy it within only a few minutes after the download is complete. Here are some of the advantages of PHP Melody:
- Offers a custom player for all videos regardless of the source. This means you brand your website, and to make it to look the way you want
- It has Search engine friendly URLs
- It is easy to import video files from YouTube and other 10 video sources: Google Video, MySpace TV, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, Veoh, Current.com, ClipFish.de, MyVideo.de, Break.com and EyeSpot
- Works on with any language “straight out of the box” as producer says.
- Your members can sign up, post comments, save favorite videos, share, report videos, suggest new videos and etc.
- Prevents any kind of abuse (CAPTCHA, comment filtering, blacklists, etc)
- Helps you to maintain content rich website and to attach descriptions or lyrics to video files
- The CMS administration allows you easy to incorporate banners, text ads as well as source code from AdSense, Yahoo Publisher or any other type of ad code.
- To help you get started we’ve handpicked 3273 videos and sorted them. As soon as you install PHP Melody you’ll already be ahead of your competition.
