Question by flightman: Which hosting service for paying video lessons website ?
Hi everyone

My project is to create a website that will have a complete lesson plan with videos, and to follow the program and view all the videos the subscribers will have to pay a fee.

What hosting service do I need ? Youtube and all other sites alike are not good because anyone can view them without paying.

Many thanks to your responses !

Best answer:

Answer by Mr. Blue Sky
You don’t need a hosting service. You need someone to build you a website or build it yourself. From what you describe it will not be cheap.

[EDIT]
It would be a purely PHP site with a MySQL database. I currently am working with a client on building a newspaper and classifieds etc… What you need to do is create a database in MySQL. Two tables for the users and the videos. Use PHP to verify a column in the users table that counts credits for video views. Store video paths (where on the server /video/) in the video table. They buy credits via paypal and after payment is recieved it will add credits to the users column under his primary key in the table.

Any host will work as long as they offer a Linux server with PHP and MySQL. I use Godaddy for price and efficiency. You will need to host your own videos so get a lot of bandwidth. Hosting them n youtube or anywhere else is a mess when you are charging for them.

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