Is HostGator Video Sharing Compatible?

[nadra]

I purchased a video sharing script, ClipShare and would like to get hosted by HostGator because it seems to give the best value for the price.

Here are the requirements:

http://www.clip-share.com/product/requirements/

My question is, does HostGator meet all these requirements?

I purchased Pro.. so hopefully HostGator meets all requirements.


Thanks in advance for any help, I'd really like to get started as soon as possible!

[virtvir5]

Originally Posted by nadra

My question is, does HostGator meet all these requirements?

Not if you're talking about a shared server account. Host Gator's PHP settings for post_max_size and upload_max_filesize are both 64M. But the major constraint would be the max_execution_time setting which is 30 on HG shared servers. ClipShare recommends 1000 "to prevent timeouts during video upload/conversion." I'm not aware of any hosting service that allows that on their shared servers.

[nadra]

Thank you very much.

[GatorNathon]

This would not be acceptable on a shared hosting environment because of the video conversions. You would HAVE to get a dedicated server because of

# Mplayer + Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)
# Flv2tool (http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2)
# Libogg + Libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/downloads)
# LAME MP3 Encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net)