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There are many
reasons why you would want to host a
video, be it for multimedia
advertisements, pod-casting, hosting
a fan-subbed video, or any other
reason why you may need to host a
video. Whether you simply want to
host a video for your friends to
download, stream a video to share
with others, or simply remotely host
a video for your website, there are
many places which you can get this
done. Which method you use to host
your videos online and which
provider to use really depends on
what the purpose of your hosting
videos online is.
For example, someone wanting to host
a fan-subbed video or a video to
share with the general public may
want to use the various online
streaming video hosts such as Veoh,
Megavideo, Youtube and other similar
providers. These websites allow you
to host the video online and other
people can stream the video from
there. This gives you a larger
audience because there is no need
for people to make unnecessary
downloads for them to see the video.
It also has a large community that
browses the websites regularly so
you are sure to get the publicity
that you need. The disadvantage of
using such a medium would be the
poor quality of the videos hosted.
The videos hosted on these streaming
websites would usually be of a
poorer resolution and the size of
the video is also smaller than
normal videos.
Another option would be to host a
video for your friends to download
via providers such as RapidShare.
While this method will not get you a
lot of viewers for the video, and
you need to tell people the URL of
the video file for them to download
the video, it allows you to preserve
the original state of the video. The
resolution and size of these videos
tend to be better. A variant of
using such a method to host videos
would be to use Bit Torrent networks
to host your videos. You can allow
people to download your video via
Bit Torrent and you do not need to
host the video anywhere as it is
hosted on the computers of the
people who belong to that Bit
Torrent network. This may be a good
option especially if you want the
large scale viewer-ship that Bit
Torrent offers.
If you are simply hosting a video
remotely for your website to link to
or stream from, you may want to
explore using web hosting to host
your video. The web space that is
usually allocated with each hosting
plan will usually be sufficient for
this purpose. However, if you are
subscribing to a cheaper plan or if
the space is insufficient, you may
need to host it elsewhere. There are
providers which allow you to host
video files remotely such as FileAve
and FlickCabin. These providers let
you host your files on their
directories and you can then hotlink
to the videos from there. This not
only saves you bandwidth but also
lets you upload files simply and
easily.
Once again, the choice for video
hosting providers would ultimately
depend on which purpose you are
using it for. Picking a suitable
provider to match your purpose is
very important, otherwise you may
have to make various adjustments
later on which would be a huge waste
of time and effort..
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