How to determine a hosts speed?

[PizzaGuy]

I know it's 2 posts in the same area, but I don't want either question to be overlooked.

I want a website to hold video and audio files, alot of them. So I need speed, I want it to be loaded as fast, if not faster than youtube, if possible. How do you determine whether or not a host will be that fast or not. Is it internet speed? Is the only thing that determines the speed of the server the location? What kind of server specs would I be looking for in order to get a server that hosts as fast as youtube? Are regular web hosting companies sufficient? or is there some like "industrial web hosting"?

Tyler

[JLHC]

You can ping the host's IP as well as get a test file to download.

[BobZ]

There are the following sits that can help to determine the speed:

alertra.com and anonymization.net


You can try them in case there are some problems with the host and your site is slow.

[Andrew]

So you're hosting videos? You'll eventually need a VPS web hosting plan or a dedicated server. Cheap shared hosting might be ok to start with but you'll want to upgrade if it's a busy site.

You might want to look at FFmpeg web hosting plans which are ideal for hosting video sharing sites.


Andrew

[TheHipster]

dedicated would be the way to go if you wanted the dedicated server for a long time if not then go either VPS or upload them to a third party site