Originally Posted by NGU

I have a mate looking for a cheapish dedicated to host some TubeX sites....

Must Have
- Unix or Linux based server
- PHP 5.2.0+
- PHP Extensions:
JSON, DOM, SimpleXML, MySQL, PCRE
- MySQL 4.1.0+


For Video Thumbnails & Conversion
- PHP safe_mode off
- PHP open_basedir off
- PHP shell_exec() & proc_open() available
- PHP CLI or CGI version available
- mencoder
- mplayer
- ffmpeg
- yamdi
- MP4Box


For Video Uploads
- PHP file_uploads on
- PHP upload_max_size at least 20MB
- PHP post_max_size at least 25MB

Optional (but highly recommended)
- PHP GD extension
- PHP cURL extension
- ImageMagick installed on server
- Access to cron on server