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If you have studied the success of Youtube, Metacafe, and others enviously there is no reasons why you can't create your own video sharing website. You should eventually be able to make some money in return from advertising depending on how well your promote your site. Here are key steps to take to get your video site off the ground
by JayNewman


If you have studied the success of Youtube, Metacafe, and others enviously there is no reasons why you can't create your own video sharing website. You should eventually be able to make some money in return from advertising depending on how well your promote your site. Here are key steps to take to get your video site off the ground

1. Rather than aiming at a mass market, choose a niche for your video site. I niche could include, cooking video's, car maintenance, howto's are perhaps "bloopers" and comic video's.

2. You'll need a good snappy domain name. Head over to one of the big registrars and see whats available. There are different approaches to choosing a domain. One way would be to include the keywords from your niche, such as "cooking videos." Another is to pick a snappy, zany name that help the site go viral.

3. Deciding on your site hosting. To start out and test your video sharing site you can try cheap shared hosting. However if your site proves popular you may need to budget to upgrade to a VPS Private Server) or even a full dedicated server.

4. Normal web hosting may not meet your requirements for running video site hosting. For instance you will need to check that web host has installed a software utility called ffmpeg. FFmpeg is popular software that converts video in various formats, on the fly to .flv format (or any other video format).

5. Users will probably upload their video's in .avi or mp3 format, and your server will convert them on the fly using ffmpeg. Other software that might be required to encode and play your video's will be ffmpeg-php, libogg

About the Author:

Jay Newman works at a Web Hosting Review Blog and also works in support at a Cheap Web Hosting Provider in London
 
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