Hosting

From Fan Film Wiki

When making a fan film and you want to show it to the world, it is important that you can show it. In this article you can find some tips how to start your own web site.

1 Video hosting sites
2 Your Own WebSite
3 Free Domains
4 External Links

[edit]

Video hosting sites

If you only want to host a video file.

Nr	Site	Space	Bandwith	Costs	html	php/sql	Formats	Easy to use	Comments
1	http://www.9999mb.com	10GB	100 GB/m	FREE	YES	BOTH	ALL	NO	Perfect for a mirror.
2	http://www.youtube.com	comments	UNLIMITED	FREE	NO	NO	UNKNOWN	YES	YouTube's limit is 10 minutes or 100 Mb
3	http://video.google.com	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	FREE	NO	NO	AVI, MPEG, MOV, RAM, MP4, WMV, ASF and more	YES	For video's larger than 100MB, a (free) desktop upload tool is recuired. The framerate should be above 12 frames per second. The bitrate should be above 260 Kbps.
4	http://www.eyespot.com	50MB/movie	UNLIMITED	FREE	NO	NO	ALL	YES	-

[edit]

Your Own WebSite

If you only want to have a website because you have mirrored your films elsewhere you can create your own site:

Nr	Site	Space	Bandwith	Costs	html	php/sql	Formats	Easy to use	Comments
1	http://www.9999mb.com	See in the above, still a tip.
2	http://www.geocities.com	15 MB	3GB/month	FREE	YES	NO	ALL	YES	Advertisements will be placed.

[edit]

Free Domains

If you want to have your own SLD (in www.fanfilmwiki.org, fanfilmwiki is the SLD), it is possible to get a free redirect at www.dot.tk (so you can get http//www.yoursitename.tk). In this case your visitors will see a commercial before entering your site, and your site has to be hosted somewhere else. In many cases you can get a free subdomain, such as by 9999mb.com (here you can get http://yoursitename.9999mb.com). If you are looking for a free .com, .org, .nl, .eu or whatever, you can stop looking for it since it don't exist.

[edit]