Video Hosting

'Hosting' is where your video is stored on the web. It is important to consider this before you use video because it governs how much control you will have over your video, and how much it will cost to keep it hosted there.

You can have your video hosted on YouTube, your own web site, or independently hosted. Once your video is hosted your web designer can very simply add the link to display the video wherever you want on your web site.

Hosting on YouTube and the other major video sharing sites is free. This is a wonderful bargain because hosting video costs YouTube an absolute fortune in storage and bandwidth costs. However YouTube is owned by Google an it is now taking steps to make money from the videos it hosts, and is putting adverts on the bottom of many videos it hosts, which people can click on and go to the web site of the advertiser, in the same way that AdWords works. So if you have a video about health insurance, then your competitors will have their adverts appearing on your video in your web site. This may not really be what you want.

Hosting on your own web site can be a problem. Your web designer will be hosting your web site on a web server connected to the internet. The cost of the web server depends on the storage capacity needed to hold your web site and the bandwidth it uses. Now storage capacity isn't normally a problem, but bandwidth is. Bandwidth is the amount of data that users of the web site download to their computer to actually see your web site. Plain text uses very little bandwidth, pictures use a lot more bandwidth, and videos use a very large amount of bandwidth. It is most unlikely that your current web site hosting arrangement has the ability or capacity to cope with streaming web video. This will cost you more to keep your web site running on a monthly basis. You should discuss this with your web site designer, and build the extra cost into your costing for having a video. Your web designer may also not be familiar with the process of adding video to a web site, which can be rather complicated.

Independent hosting is the other way to host your video, and this gives you full control of your hosting options. One example of this is Vzaar.

SuperVid hosting. We can provide independent hosting for your videos. We bulk buy hosting space form leading providers and so we can offer this at a very affordable price. We then provide the lines of code for you to add your video to your web site.