simple website for storing adult mp4s

Hi, as usual picking brains again lol, Im having real problems finding a simple streaming website to keep about 30 mp4 adult urls in to stream to our cinema. I dont need a webite and all the bells, just a place to stream the vids, but many free, or low cost ones, allow public access to them, which is obviosly not what i want, and they get pulled after a couple of days, saying your account has been closed because we dont allow adult material.(

We were going to try "dreamhost" as recomended by an inworld TV vendor, but theres a $49 set up fee, and a host of features that would never get used, plus u have to have something called a sub-domain which i have no idea what that is, can anybody suggest a way to get our cinema going! been trying to get this running for 6 months now, and still no joy. I dont want anything complicated or expensive, as never had a website before, just a place to "store and stream" simple as that. cost has got to be low, becase we dont know wether it will be something thats popular in our own sim, we need to trial it first!

Any ideas or web streaming sites that allow adult material pleeeeaseeee!

thanks

Mich and Sue

I haven't been able myself find any site that allows adult content myself.
Most all sites now be it blog or what not have some type of restrictions on adult content.
They use to be free sites but not sure about place that host files,etc.
What about xtube.com?

hiya spark,x tube is a public site, u cant store urls in it to stream/host your own vids, u cant even save a vid you have watched , cos i tried many tims to d/l a vid from watching one, but the link never works. U need your own site to stream your own stuff... also our movies are between 130meg to 300meg, x tube dont allow that size of vids, as far as i know

thanks anyway

mich and sue

heh, I shook a few cobwebs out of my skull but everything I could think of is gone. I think most, especially the free ones are just a ruse to use your content for their "amateur" sister sites anyway. Everyone's out to make a buck, especially when you throw the word "Adult" in there. How much use do you expect, aka how much bandwidth? Is self hosting a possibility?

Yes, Hostgator (http://www.hostgator.com) allow hosting adult content on thier standard packages.

Decent, reliable service too.

Gomez

thanks guys, and will look up hostgator site Gomez

thanks

Vamp, unfortunetly I am a real newbie to websites, whats a "bandwidth", and what do mean when u say how much?

We just want to run vids 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, like just repeating the 10 or 20 we have stored all the time.

self hosting?? again never heard of that? any books or sites for a newbie website guy to look up! Not new to SL but didnt kbow it was going to be this difficult to show my vids, I tried to d/l them in to sl lol. i had no idea they werent like pics u upload, pity theres not a link to upload yuor vids to your tv reciever anf just play thm on a stand alone sl dvd player, but im told theres no such thing available to just upload your vids and play them from yr h/d...!!

looks like back to school for me lol

How much space does all 30 mp4 take up in gigabytes? I highly doubt you will find anything cheap to host that much space and bandwidth reliably.

In website hosting, the term "bandwidth" is often used to describe the amount of data that can be transferred to or from the website or server, measured in bytes transferred over a prescribed period of time. This can be more accurately described as "Monthly Data Transfer."

Most web hosting companies place a limit on how much bandwidth you can use per month and either your usage is turned off... or more often you are charged a high rate for the excess in addition to your normal charges.

Before you even begin you need to know the size of your files. The way video works in SL is the movie is streamed to each individual person's computer.... so for example.
If you have 20 people watching a movie whose file size 1GB... your bandwidth usage will be 20 X 1GB = 20GB....for just that one movie. You are talking about streaming 24x7.

I agree with others... this will be an expensive endeavor for you.

Actually Dreamhost offer an interesting pack for store files and websites, it's enough for stream videos, and yes adult content is allowed (just be careful about copyright permissions).

I suggest you try that. However, if you are looking for a free host... well is very hard to find it.

This is deviant activity, and should be banned from the grid. I'm shocked! Shocked I say! Please disclose where this deviant, cheap-whore-infested theater is, so that those of us on the Lord's side may Abuse-Report it forthwith! (after reviewing the content for verification purposes, of course)

Hi, these are not the replies, I was hoping for, seems that I wont be able to show 24 hours a day and 7 days a week then, i live in uk, so when i go to bed, if i turn off the theatre, no one in other time zone countries will be able to watch them during their day will they!


I thought when u had your own website u could do /store put out what u want?

How do i set up my own website to get round all these limitations? So i havent got to worry about this thing called bandwith.!

Most of our movies are 200mg in size about 35 mins each, high quality mp4 converted by myself from my enormous collection....the larger movies of 600meg i have split into part 1 and part 2. Althuogh i want to store 30 vids, I just want to pick some each day or week to add or take off the reciever...

Dreamhost is good, i also have a been given a code number as a referral, which starts me off with a discount, but unfortuently for monthly payments, instead of a year, which we dont know yet wether it will last that long they charge u a whopping 50$ set up fee, and i have no idea how to run it or setup that thing called a sub domain. Even dreamhost says that to setup mp4 quicktime streaming is complicated, in there FAQ,s so what hope me lol
Why doesnt second life use divx, its much better and versatile than quicktime which i see as an outdated player, i done even use it on my comp!!
Why does other peoples computers come into the equation??? surely this is going into SL not other peoples comps, I dont see the relavancy, the movie is on the grid right, so actually if u didnt have a room and it was just on open ground, millions of SL people could watch it!!

the most people that we are allowing in the cinema is about 9, its only on an island in a converted tiki hut lol.....its not a massive odeon size thing... and we are only charging a nominal fee, just to cover the website fee per month, as its for our group members not a public thing, that any body can go too..!!

Also why is there a limit to what u can stream into sl...? Why charge at all in fact, we dont want the website anyway, just a place to stream, cant cost that much for a website to give u unlimited use, i dont see what the problem is ( seems outdated, over complicated, crap to me! lol

SO if went to my internet provider AOL could i get a website from them, they dont restrict what i d/l or use on my comp..!

frustrated after all these months and still havent found a pay door that allows more than one person in at a time (

No whores at my island, only fun loving lesbian and bi people, the lord is welcome anytime to enjoy what he created in human beings--- "The Joy of Sex"...."here endeth the lesson for today" amen xx

mich

How can you get around server fees? Buy a server. Realistically you can run them 24/7, you get charged per byte somebody is accessing them. You don't get charged all the time. So it will be accessable by anyone at any time. But as someone said this can add up really fast. Because every person watching is streaming bytes. Also your compression is a huge factor. The larger your video the more you pay. I can't speak for everyone, but I own half a gig of server space. With I think 5 gigs a month streaming time. This would be about enough space to host maybe 1-2 movies, and I pay about 500USD a year. I also run my main sites and only stream when I have some special something going on.

So if you want to stream at the capacity you are talking about, well that's about a 10 grand inventement in my approximation. That's a year, I am sure you can find monthly hosting as well, but the rule applies, the more you buy, the cheaper it is.

There is no limit to what you can stream into SL (it doesn't actually go through SL at all). The limit is imposed by Website hosting companies. The reason is simple: bandwidth costs money. The more bandwidth used, the more it costs. Website Hosting companies don't get bandwidth for free, so they must charge for it.

phew! im going to give this cinema up i think.

I thought web hosting companies were the people giving u the bandwith, so who giving them there bandwith?, no i really wanted to upload my vids into my inventory, and play them from the inventory by just adding them to the dvd player, to watch anytime i wanted...

Thats because i saw u could uplaod pics so i stupidly thought u could upload anything to yuor inventory and play it..

well thanks all, but its really not what i was expecting to be able to do, so cinema is a dead duck now...

I pay less than $7.50 a month for my web host, it allows adult material (so long as it's not 'illegal' adult material like child porn) and they give me 5 terabytes of bandwidth a month.

Im thinking about buying my own server to cover this very problem. I too have been unsuccessful in locating a plan that offers what I want.
I could set up sub domains on the server and give you acess for loading and streaming. But like any other server it will cost u.

if there are enough requests for this I can make it happen. But all the requests would have to pay for the server bill to make it feasible and worthwhile to me for something I would like but really dont HAVE to have. Not to mention the constant policing for unwantd nasties on my machine.

Sorry about that I wasn't exactly sure how it works.
Mac has server thing for 999 usd but not sure if it would work like to make websites,etc or what the security risk are since like you I don't know whole lot about the know how about all that either.
Most of my stuff is pretty rated pg but I have at times thought I like to have website with more "adult" art images and content myself but wouldn't know where to start

name/url please.

Mich,
The cost trickles down from companies like Sprint or AT+T/Lucent. The people who put billion dollar satellites in orbit or trans-atlantic fiber optics. They spend inconceivable sums of money to do that, then rent out the usage of it. Bigger fish buy up said usage ("bandwidth" and then sell off metered pieces to smaller fish, on down.

Hear hear, that's cookoo banannas, please share this site with us.

It's Servage.net

If you feel like doing it, ask me for my referral number; it'll get you 25GB of extra storage space, but it's by no means required. You can sign up without a referral code. I've had nothing but good luck with them.

Servage looks to be a good option especially for those in the EU. While I was poking thru their Acceptable Use something else occured to me on this topic. It does state that adult material which is otherwise legal is ok to host.

That "otherwise legal" part prolly includes stuff like "2257" laws. And age verification. Prolly not an issue for the intended purpose of streaming via SL. But when you host something online like that, *in theory* anyone else could access it too. So you are expected to put preventative measures on it to keep out kids. Just something to think about.

Hey thanks m8, wonder if u could say or give me the webpage to the site u use so i could have a look into it...

Thanks

mich!

Sorry friends u must have posted same time as i asked for name of site??

Thanks for your help here, most welcome, would love to take up the offer Ciera of sharing the costs...its a real pain money at the momment lol Theres huge spiralling costs in uk with
food , fuel and household energy bills eating away at our leisure activities

I own 2 islands with my partner, i was lucky enough to trade some old land to get a better deal on one, then a sim became available across the water, and as Im pretty friendly with land owner, she let me have to 15500sqmt at a very good price, we have put 6 nice houses up for rent, put surfable waves and sail ships, tiki stuff and wild life, fishing station etc, but were really worried about tiers lately and it seems in no time it time to pay them again... my partner has put them up for 1000L a week, im wondering wether that is a little to much, at that rate we would make a little profit after tier paid, if we lowered it to say 800L we would barely break even, damn lol is it really worth it i sometime say to myeslf!!

I have a refurel code for dreamhost, but the FAQ saying that setting up mp4 streaming is a bit complicated, so put me off, as i have no experience at all for putting up a website.

Ciera if u could get back with a figure? WE have decided that we will not be using the cinema for most of the group! just us and a few close friends....seems more likely to be able to manage that, so If we could store say 4 movies at 300meg each at any one time, and play one each evening, and just change the 4 to a different 4 each week, instead of storing 30 in one go! Im more than happy to do this with u if u get enough interest and genuine requests!

I will have a quick look at servage.net and see what that offers. wish sl would use a different format than quicktime, we hardly use it in uk, we use windows media and divx as the main players, pity sl doesnt offer diff
erent formats of media, I know apple quicktime is a usa based format, but us euros dont

really like it, as we dont use mac much at all here!

Soloman, if i decide servage is good to try, will ask for that referall code if thats ok )

cheers guys

mich xxxx

I don't see that Servage is a streaming provider. Do I see that wrong? My English is not that good.

Hi Solomon, and Pietje,

Had a very nice reply from Servage.net after only 30 mins after i sent a question. I sent a question regarding second life and, do their packages support streaming, as its not listed in the "whats included section" except for bandwidth details.

"Yes streaming vids is fine" they said, I made sure I said, "do u support quicktime streaming" before i sent it!!

"they are look foreward to setting up our web site"! seems its a dutch company , I think.

Adult material is ok, as long as its legal seems to be accepted in their terms.....!

so Solomon if u have that intro code get back to me or leave me an IM inworld, dont think I can get personal mesages in forums, dont know why, it seems im blocked from making or recieving private messages, dont know why lol

Could be!, I may be able to get something going at last, but not pushing my luck, and take it one day at a time, just hope they can help with the set up, im sure, by the quick replies, they would help me with that!

Hope that also answers your question also Pietje

thanks again

mich