Hello everyone, I'm going to set up a website that's going to have youtube videos embedded.
I've got a few questions which I would like to ask.
1. There are quite a few domain registers in NZ, some charge $20/year (1stdomain), some $70/year (Snap). When I asked Snap what seperates them from the other competitors, they replied.
"Snap excels over other ISP's in customer service and we offer a online portal so
you can modify your domain anytime 24/7. "
Now, I'm not really fussed about the extra $50 charged by Snap, what I'm concerning is that will they provide a more stable domain than other competitors such as 1stdomain? Or is that something to do with the company that's hosting the website?
I would like to set up a website that runs as fast & reliable as Trademe or Stuff for NZ viewers, having the website crashing at 9pm at night is the last thing I want to see.
Which brings me to the next question, web hosting. When I host an embedded youtube video that is 50mb size, when Joe Blogs clicks link and view the video, does that count as traffic towards the website?
For example, www.nzwebhost.co.nz offers 5gb hosting space & unlimited traffic. If I go with that particular company, will the 50mb embedded video count towards the 5gb hosting space? Since I don't have to worry about traffic, how will I know what is the maximum number of visitors that the web hoster can handle at any given time?
What I'm really getting at in this post is, I'm going to set up a website with lots of embedded links to youtube, the traffic towards the website will hopefully get bigger as time passes by. What should I look for as domain register and web hoster?
Thanks a lot for reading this post, as you can tell, I'm a newbie in this field, I've last set up a website with notepad and hosted it with my ISP 10 years ago, I know pretty much nothing in terms of web hosting now. So, hopefully you can answer few of the questions.
Thanks,
Andy