Inexpensive hosting for true streaming of flv?

Factual Questions
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My company is looking for an inexpensive way to serve true streaming flv (not progressive download). I know that Limelight and Akamai are the usual suspects, but:

  • we don’t have that much video content (around .5GB content stored, largest flv is 40MB, we usually transfer 2GB a month but at one time of the year it tends to approach 20). This really would be, I think, a job too small for them.
  • We also don’t have the budget.

I’ve seen a number of companies that can meet our needs for $100/month, which would probably be acceptable. FLV Hosting and Upstream Networks are a couple I have read about.

Anybody have any experience with these? Or have something better they can recommend?

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I’ve seen some PHP code for streaming flv files that would not require any special hosting outside of a normal hosting account with php if you want to go very small scale.

I think I came across information about using php to stream by googling: streaming FLV php

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Thanks for reminding me about that. I remember reading about this too, and will check it out again. I’m driving a fairly crummy rig at work - no support for PHP or any runtime server-side scripting whatsoever :eek:. But now that I’ve got to look to outside hosting anyway, it may be worth a look.

[sub]Question is, is my scale “very small” enough to work with this approach?[/sub]