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Old 12-29-2011, 03:47 AM  
OneWhoKnows
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How much bandwidth for a HD paysite?

Strange enough, it looks like no one has asked this question before, at least not recently. Next year, probably in summer, I plan to release my first paysite. However, of course I'm already checking available options for billing, CMS and hosting.

What I plan to do is one paysite with exclusive HD content, a few flash trailers on the tour pages, a small CCBill affiliate program with a few hosted picture galleries and some hosted flash galleries.

How much bandwidth would you say should I have included in my hosting deal, at the very least? Of course I'd especially like to hear comments from ppl who launched something similar recently.

I also saw the offer from Elevated X and MojoHost, CMS with dedicated server with 25 Mbps included. Actually I think that is FAR too low for a paysite with big downloadable movie files - not to talk about hosted galleries. I mean the content server for my free tubes where I only host the screenshots and a tiny bit of the tube movies already needs more than 30 Mbps.

So, I'd really like to hear your opinions.
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