Displaying videos on static website without knowing programming.

[Charles]

Hello,
I am not a programmer and I want to embed flash video player and videos in my static website can anyone give me suggestions or simple method to follow? I would be thankful to you. Await your reply.

[Arkadij S]

Dear Charles,

Unfortunately we don`t allow to run a flash player on any of our plans, except for virtual and dedicated servers because of their resource-intensity. What we can suggest you to do, it to link the needed video from the needed source. This won`t abuse our server and let you broadcast everything, you need.

[Grayson]

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[amclay]

Hello,
I am not a programmer and I want to embed flash video player and videos in my static website can anyone give me suggestions or simple method to follow? I would be thankful to you. Await your reply.

You might want to either link directly to the file (if not incredibly large), or provide a torrent file to the video. Another solution would be to host the video on YouTube, and use that bandwidth.

As far as torrents are concerned, I'm fairly confident that WHB allows them as long as the content is legal. Don't get into the whole TPB arguments, and you should be fine.

[Alan B]

AFAIK, torrents are not permitted here.

[Tony]

I'm not so sure about that. The only copy of the TOS I could find here, only says you can't run a torrent client.

The word "video" doesn't appear at all, and these days maybe it should. Reason being, it's a common mistake for noobs to think they can host a bunch of video on a cheap shared server, instead of having to link to it elsewhere.

"Running of public file exchange services is strictly prohibited" may prohibit it, if no passwords or accounts were involved.

PS A search on both TOS and "terms of service" fails at the WHB wiki.

[amclay]

http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/?hosti...t-usage-policy

Torrents seem to be acceptable, as long as they are of legal content.

[Alan B]

Matt wrote, in another thread, that torrents are not allowed here.

[amclay]

Matt wrote, in another thread, that torrents are not allowed here.

That's fine, but I am wondering where they document this? Torrents are not piracy. Most linux CDs are distributed this way, as well as other legal content. I would assume it would be in the TOS if they did not want people uploading legal torrents.

[Alan B]

Piracy is not the sole issue here. WHB also wants to ensure that high-resource uses such as torrent or video downloading do not occur on shared hosting plans. That could consume too many resources and impair performance for other clients on the server.

[Tony]

Torrents aren't downloaded from the server. That's their claim to fame.

[amclay]

I agree that it's not completely a piracy issue (at all). Torrent files are maybe 1-2Kb in size, and do not consume resources of the server. Hosting a few legal torrent files, and hosting a torrent tracker/service are two completely different things.

A good analogy would be linking to a youtube video. Although yes, the video itself is taking lots of bandwidth, the link isn't causing any bandwidth problems because the content and video are not being shown on the shared hosting plan.

I just don't see WHB minding if I put a torrent file up for a Debian/CentOS release as long as it's a legal torrent, and no bittorrent traffic is being hosted by WHB.

Its not in their TOS anywhere, and I've not seen any contradicting evidence.

[Alan B]

I am well aware of how torrents work. I am simply letting you know that Matt wrote that they are not permitted here. WHB Support can clarify if need be.

[Tony]

You've said that twice now, and can say it twice more, but that won't make it true. We need linkage.

We've shown you two links already that say something else entirely. Both are versions of the TOS, so even if he did say that, he was simply mistaken.

[Alan B]

Yikes, don't be so accusatory.

I simply communicated what Matt had said. As CEO of WHB, I think his opinion carries weight. I don't see any point in commenting further, as I don't work for WHB. I'll let staff provide a definitive response, if they so choose.

[Dragonknight768]

Allan B is correct.,Maybe it is much better if you follow what allan said.,we have the same idea.




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[tanyaspin]

I am sure you will find your solution here.

[nikole95]

Matt wrote, in another thread, that torrents are not allowed here.

That's fine, but I am wondering where they document this? Torrents are not piracy. Most linux CDs are distributed this way, as well as other legal content. I would assume it would be in the TOS if they did not want people uploading legal torrents.

[Alan B]

Torrents are not piracy. Most linux CDs are distributed this way, as well as other legal content.

And you are free to obtain such things. You just aren't allowed to host them here.

It's not solely about piracy. It's also about keeping servers stable.

See:
http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/forum/...onditions.html
http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/forum/...-progress.html

[Tony]

Actually, you just linked to a couple posts that are 3 years old. But the current AUP at http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/terms.php doesn't mention the word "torrent" or "p2p". Admittedly I didn't read the whole thing, I just did a search.

Anyway, that's probably best because I could never quite understand why anyone would want to run a bittorrent app on the server. Makes no sense. You run bittorrent apps at home.