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A video sharing service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video. The website, mainly used as the video hosting service, is usually called the video sharing website.

There are plenty of opensource and paid video sharing scripts available in market, You must consider some important points before you select video sharing script for your business.

Script Security

When you talk about uploading video files that itself makes it clear — hackers have option to upload malicious scripts and hack the script or server in large.

Make sure the script that you select is professionally designed and well coded to nullify the hacking attempts. Now its not just script it could be hosting environment too which can allow hackers to gain access for example —

1) Register_Globals ON — This is big security hole — Infrenion has all servers with register_globals OFF.

2) Permission Issues — (A common issue with hosting companies running PHP as Apache Module)

Infrenion runs php in secure environment for joomla accounts — We have installed suPHP which completely resolves permission issues.

Script Functionality

Please check if the script has all functions that is needed for video sharing website for example the core functions of any video sharing script are uploading video files, converting videos to flash, displaying videos.

Script Scalability

Video Sharing sites generally attracts large internet traffic - If your video script is poorly coded it can cause high server loads. You should make sure the script you select is scalable and can sustain high traffic loads.

Script Performance

Script performance depends mainly on hosting plan that you choose. Double check the script technical requirements if they are satisfied by your host.You should select reliable host with good uptime guarantee and knowing its video site you should choose plan with large space and bandwidth. Video sharing sites requires large resources as it takes uploading files, converting to flash & displaying it. That’s a hefty task for a server.