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alexknight
04 Jul 2009, 07:39 AM
Hi

Wonder if you good people can offer some advice please.

In a month or so we are launching a social networking site. Part of the site/peoples profiles will mean they can upload pictures and video to their profiles. The site is quite complex as it also involves forms, detailed search engine etc etc etc.

My developer is saying for people to upload video clips to our site and have a media player will slow our site down and even crash it? And a simple way would be for people to upload to YouTube and the link will be entered into their gallery. We have limited people to max 30 clips. And obviously we will not have 100,000 people to start with on the site!

Also who would be the best people to host such a site so we dont have band width and space issues as we grow as it is a free site.

Your advice will be Very much appreciated!

Kind regards

Alex