How to Choose the Right Host For Your Online Video

In general, paying for video hosting gives you one major benefit over free hosting: control. If your video is of cute kids playing, controlling the way it's played and making sure there are no ads on it may not be necessary, however for a business video a lack of ads plus control over player appearance and functions are important enough to pay for.

The last paid hosting service I'm going to mention here is Screencast.com, which is run by Camtasia publisher Techsmith. $9.95/month, $99/year is a great price. 25GB Storage and 200GB Monthly Bandwidth is pretty good, too, all from a reliable company in other words unlikely go out of business and leave a lot of holes on sites that used to have emebedded videos on them.

IBM had a credit card processor client with more than 4,700 servers spread across 10 data centers. IBM did an analysis and found that the servers were being underutilized. IBM emploted VMware and Intel research to create a virtualization platform that consolidated servers and lowered the time and cost of administration.