{"id":3532,"date":"2008-08-24T05:04:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/24\/make-money-from-your-own-clip-share-you-tube-clone-site\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T05:04:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:04:50","slug":"make-money-from-your-own-clip-share-you-tube-clone-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=3532","title":{"rendered":"Make Money from your own Clip Share, You Tube Clone Site"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Jay Newman<\/div>\n

Video Sharing Web Sites seem all the rage right now, and a quick check on Alexa reveals that traffic to the established sites is soaring. So how to get in on the action and set up your own video sharing site.<\/p>\n

1. Rather than aiming at a mass market, choose a niche for your video site. I niche could include, cooking video’s, car maintenance, howto’s are perhaps “bloopers” and comic video’s.<\/p>\n

2. Choose a good domain name, the shorter and snappier the better. This goes hand in hand with choosing your niche. If you are creating a niche video sharing website, such as racing cars or say football, consider incorporating your keywords into the domain. <\/p>\n

3. Deciding on your site hosting<\/a>. To start out and test your video sharing site you can try cheap shared hosting. However if your site proves popular you may need to budget to upgrade to a VPS Private Server) or even a full dedicated server.<\/p>\n

4. Normal web hosting<\/a> might need the requirements for video sharing so check out web hosts, and Google for “ffmpeg hosting.” FFMpeg is a utility that powers a lot of video sharing sites as it will encode video in varying formats to flash video player format (.flv)<\/p>\n

5. You visitors will want to upload their video’s. These will be in different formats. If you have used YouTube<\/a> you will know that they encode your uploaded video’s into a flash format (.flv files). This requires specialist modules to be installed in your hosting account or dedicated server. These are ffmeg, ffmpeg-php, libogg<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Jay Newman runs a Web Hosting Review<\/a> Blog and also works in support at a Cheap Web Hosting Provider<\/a> in London<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video Sharing Web Sites seem all the rage right now, and a quick check on Alexa reveals that traffic to the established sites is soaring. So how to get in on the action and set up your own video sharing site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","tag-domains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}