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Originally Posted by fujiko
Hello
I just need to ask a question about hosting.
I am on a quad server with 10mbps. 4gb ram
My website videos run on flash.
When i try to watch videos on my website, it loads very slow with constant buffering freezes. ( Even with testing, flash movies that are 10mins long - 74mb in size )
When, i go to other sites that are running on even shared hosting. I can watch their 1hr movies, without buffering.
My host says, everything is fine, on their end. They cant even find a solution.
So, i am asking anyone, who has knowlege with this stuff.. To please help.
This way, i can transfer, from them, if they are cheating me.
What could be causing this. Is it capping OR do i need to increase the mbps.
Thanks.
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You said your videos are 74MB for 10 minutes.
On other sites that seem to run better, what size are the videos?
If your internet connection can't download 74MB in ten minutes it's going
to have buffering delays no matter how fast the host. Go to Speakeasy
and do a speed test. 74MB in 10 minutes is 987 Kbps. Does speakeasy say
your connection is at least 987 Kbps?
You also said you've bought a 10 Mbps connection from your host.
With overhead, call it 9Mbps. One user downloading one of your videos
needs 1Mbps to avoid buffering. That means the connection you bought
should support nine users at a time. Does your site have enough traffic that
you'd expect more than nine people to be dwnloading videos or loading
images at a time? If so, you'll need more than 10 Mbps to avoid buffering delays.
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