Though video and audio streaming is offered in the majority of plans, I guess that hosts usew the same servers for thes plans, so basically they offer web server streaming.
Who are the hosts offering streaming media server streaming?

streaming media server streaming

What did you mean under that?

Well, I actually meant streaming via streaming media server as opposed to streaming via web server.
Hope it's understandable now.

I know a couple good streaming hosts but still unsure of what your looking for, are you saying you want dedicated streaming, not virtual?

... streaming media server streaming - how is it possible? Never heard of it.

Are you looking for dedicated streaming with CDN?

Just realized:

'streaming media server streaming'

Was likely refering to true streaming versus progressive downloads with a web server.

Originally Posted by ECSuite_Russell

Are you looking for dedicated streaming with CDN?

Just realized:

'streaming media server streaming'

Was likely refering to true streaming versus progressive downloads with a web server.

Exactly, I think this is what the question was about.

There are lots of big hosting offering streaming, even in shared hosting plan

If you are looking to do streaming content with a shared hosting company, check each TOS/AUP carefully, most of them limit your resource usage. Even if streaming is allowed by the host, you may only be able to get your content to a limited audience before the site is suspended, or site performance is degraded beyond being functional.

If you are looking to do streaming content with a shared hosting company, check each TOS/AUP carefully, most of them limit your resource usage.

I do agree with you and I personaly think that this might be time wasting to look for such deals in the shared web hosting.
VPS at least to feel well

Originally Posted by ~ServerPoint~

I do agree with you and I personaly think that this might be time wasting to look for such deals in the shared web hosting.
VPS at least to feel well

VPS deals can be different as well.

Shared web hosting with streaming is actually not possible, finally, you will need a VPS / Dedicated server

What kind of streaming are you referring to? What are you trying to accomplish?

The differences between the Web server and streaming media server solutions translate into clear distinctions in both ease of implementation, ease of management, and quality of user experience. For the remainder of this white paper, the comparison will be between a generic Web server and Microsoft's streaming media server, Windows NT Server Windows Media Services (hereafter referred to as a Windows Media server).

You can read more about it at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...treamserv.aspx
just mind it mostly refers to microsoft technologies.

The majority of hosts use web server streaming as this allows them to utilize the existing infrastructure, i've seen this in hostgator.com and serverpoint.com plans.

don

Originally Posted by timbre

You can read more about it at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...treamserv.aspx
just mind it mostly refers to microsoft technologies.

The majority of hosts use web server streaming as this allows them to utilize the existing infrastructure, i've seen this in hostgator.com and serverpoint.com plans.

If it's on a web server I don't believe it's technically streaming at all, it's a progressive download, which isn't the same thing.

A progressive download video you can fast forward up to the point of the video that's downloaded so far, and not beyond. A streaming web video you can skip to any point in the video with just a couple seconds of buffering.

Thanks, got it.
For those interested see here http://dowire.org/wiki/Streaming_vs_...ssive_Download

Originally Posted by timbre

Thanks, got it.
For those interested see here http://dowire.org/wiki/Streaming_vs_...ssive_Download

Thanks for useful link.

Very Good article. I know a hosting company that has a good visual walk through for the difference between Progressive and Streaming, but they deal primarily with Adult, probably best I don't post the link here, hehe.

Why not??

I have seen on ServerPoint.com shared package plans many streaming features are offered to the clients of this company (Windows Media Player, RealAudio�/Video, Quicktime, MPEG, and others (all via HTTP streaming)).