FLVTool2 and FFMPEG for video

[eddiemoth]

With today media driven website technology, many of my clients ask for options for uploading video and streaming video and I am suprised that BH is not even considering to support FLVTool2 and FFMPEG. I have suggested a couple times via Chat Support. I like their support and don't really move all my websites to other another host if they consider to add these options.

[EricJ]

The reason those two tools are not supported is because this is a shared hosting environment. Even with the best throttling systems and the best hardware / software configurations, using tools like ffmpeg and flvtool2 use enough system resources to adversely affect other users on your server. They would likely be used by a vast amount of people, thus creating a large drop in everyone's website performance.

Normally, resource heavy tools like these require a VPS host where you have your own 'slice' of a server and you can use as many resources as you want from that piece. Just doing a quick google search I found a few VPS hosts that are right around $20 per month. If it's a must for you to use ffmpeg and flvtool2 I would recommend trying out a vps server.

I'm not trying to argue with you, those tools are definitely great, but IMO with today's hardware and software capabilities, I don't think they belong on shared hosts. I don't want to pay (via slowness) for tools someone else is using.

[farcaster]

Also, to the OP, this is a user to user forum, not a Bluehost support forum.

Read the Read Before Posting (http://www.bluehostforums.com/showthread.php?t=16751) at the top.

[eddiemoth]

Thank you farcaster for pointing that out. I have edited my post so that I am not talking to HB now.

I have set up 6 websites for my clients with Arvixe.com for $4/month for the last 6 or 7 months and they all seem to be just fine. If BH offers the options, these websites would have been with HB. At least, I tried to give them my suggestion. That is all I wanted to say.

[felgall]

BlueHost have said on a few occasions that they eventually hope to offer VPS or dedicated hosting but have never put a timeframe on when.