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Hi, my "real user generated content" tube site is chewing up 2.5 TBs of bandwidth a day so Im also looking to move around. Basically getting around 80k uniques a day at the moment. Im hosting the main site on a dual quad core with 4 gigs ram with Theplanet (peak hours hit 5k unique visitors) and the load jumps to almost 20 but it still handles. Theplanet is basically a super premium main stream host.
For the video streaming servers I'm using 10tb.com which is basically a reseller of softlayer.com I've had no problem at all with their servers. I have 3 video servers with them and they work great, they have unbelievable prices. Starting at $199 for 10TBs quad cores!
In all honesty, you really only need super premium Tier 1 bandwidth for your main web server but not for the streaming servers, especially for a tube site.
30TBs is not nearly enough for me though so Im considering possibly moving to choopa.com or another host that offers full pipes, perhaps 250MB dedicated will do for me. I sometimes peak at 300 but 250 may be fine. I have to keep the overhead down.
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