How to Start a Video Sharing Website
Ever since broadband Internet became widespread, video sharing websites like youtube.com, vimeo.com and veoh.com have become popular destination sites. Before starting a video sharing website, keep copyright laws in mind and know how to deal with users who upload material they do not own; otherwise, you could end up like YouTube, which in 2007 was sued by Viacom a billion dollars.
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Instructions
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Domain Name
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Decide on a few potential website domain names. Because most of the generic dictionary domains are already registered, many people choose a name that somewhat represents their business, such as facebook.com or myspace.com. Some companies create a brand name from scratch, like google.com or yahoo.com.
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Search online for which of your potential domains are available. Do this only when you are ready to buy, or the websites you search through might steal your idea.
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Register the domain you choose. Not all domain registrars are equal in service and price; some offer a discounted price only for the first year, but later charge a higher price. You can choose to register the domain for one year or up to 10 years. Sometimes you receive discounts for registering several years in advance and won't risk forgetting to re-register every year.
Hosting
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Choose a web hosting company, which lets you store files on an web server running all the time. You will need a web host plan that provides a lot of bandwidth, disk space and mysql databases and also allows scripting languages. It should also support the free open source video conversion software FFMpeg.
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Add your domain to the web hosting control panel. You should then receive DNS, or domain name server, information for that domain.
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Set up web hosting DNS information in the domain registrar's panel. This tells people who are visiting your domain the IP address to use. Wait a few hours for the DNS changes to propagate through the Internet before trying to access your website.
Website
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Choose a video sharing script for your website that has a content management system (CMS), which enables you to edit your website through its interface instead of having to learn programming.
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Install the video sharing CMS script. Read the manual for the script you chose for installation instructions.
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Customize as necessary to fit your community.
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