High-Scalability Hosting for Streaming Media and Video Content Sites – Scalable Hosting

Ever since YouTube rose to fame when Google bought it in 2006, many webmasters tried to clone it. Unfortunately, a lot of them failed. While several factors contributed to their failure, from poor marketing to the lack of a big budget, the failure to deliver when their users’ demands grew is one significant factor.

Hosting streaming media such as videos is different from a website that only hosts text and images. File sizes of videos are much larger and thus take up more bandwidth. And so what happens when an ill-equipped video content site is suddenly bombarded with many visitors is that they fail to keep up. Streaming of videos and even loading of pages suddenly slow down. When this happens, users get frustrated and leave that website. Everytime this happens, the video content site loses potential customers.

To prevent such disaster from happening, the webmaster should first consider getting high-scalability hosting before even developing the website.

Scalable Hosting means High Scalability and high availability – these are essential requirements for high-performance Hosting Services

What is High-Scalability Hosting

Simply known as Scalable Hosting, the term refers to hosting solutions that make it easy for websites to adapt sudden to increase in traffic. Using the same example mentioned earlier, visitors of a website will not experience slowdowns even if their numbers spike up because scalable hosting immediately adapts itself to the website’s current demands.

But sudden spikes in traffic aren’t the only things that owners of video streaming sites have to worry about. They should also ensure that their files are hosted on reliable and stable servers.

How Reliable Hosting Can Help Prevent Site Disasters

Many things come into play in the background in preventing site disasters such as slow downs and crashes.

First of these is called server clustering. This is a kind of set-up where several servers  work as one unit. By having this kind of arrangement, the host ensures that the websites hosted under it will continue to run smoothly even if one server fails. This is because the resources are redistributed to the remaining functional servers in case one breaks down.

So put into the context of a video content site, it will run without a hitch even if it  experiences a spike in traffic because there are several servers that share the workload.

Then there’s also the issue of file storage. The larger the website is, the more reliable file storage it needs because it cannot afford to lose even a single bit of data.

Webmasters putting up streaming media sites should therefore consider hosts that offer reliable storage options such as Storage Area Networks or SANs. In this kind of set up, storage devices are attached to servers remotely. This ensures that if the server fails, the files remain safe.

Aside from that, SANs offer faster connection speeds than other storage options because data can be streamed from the storage device to the server using fiber optic cables. Fiber optic cables deliver data faster than traditional copper cables. And by using fiber optic cables, storage devices can be stored further than those that use copper ones.

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