Displaying videos on static website without knowing programming.

[Charles]

Hello,
I am not a programmer and I want to embed flash video player and videos in my static website can anyone give me suggestions or simple method to follow? I would be thankful to you. Await your reply.

[Arkadij S]

Dear Charles,

Unfortunately we don`t allow to run a flash player on any of our plans, except for virtual and dedicated servers because of their resource-intensity. What we can suggest you to do, it to link the needed video from the needed source. This won`t abuse our server and let you broadcast everything, you need.

[Grayson]

Have you ever heard about development tools? If no, I want to tell you that there are tools available in market which automatically creates websites and upload files, media etc using wizard or simple steps. I would suggest you to go here A4DeskPro Flash Website Builder

I am sure you will find your solution here.

[amclay]

Originally Posted by Charles

Hello,
I am not a programmer and I want to embed flash video player and videos in my static website can anyone give me suggestions or simple method to follow? I would be thankful to you. Await your reply.

You might want to either link directly to the file (if not incredibly large), or provide a torrent file to the video. Another solution would be to host the video on YouTube, and use that bandwidth.

As far as torrents are concerned, I'm fairly confident that WHB allows them as long as the content is legal. Don't get into the whole TPB arguments, and you should be fine.

[Alan B]

AFAIK, torrents are not permitted here.

[Tony]

I'm not so sure about that. The only copy of the TOS I could find here, only says you can't run a torrent client.

The word "video" doesn't appear at all, and these days maybe it should. Reason being, it's a common mistake for noobs to think they can host a bunch of video on a cheap shared server, instead of having to link to it elsewhere.

"Running of public file exchange services is strictly prohibited" may prohibit it, if no passwords or accounts were involved.

PS A search on both TOS and "terms of service" fails at the WHB wiki.

[amclay]

http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/?hosti...t-usage-policy

Torrents seem to be acceptable, as long as they are of legal content.

[Alan B]

Matt wrote, in another thread, that torrents are not allowed here.

[amclay]

Originally Posted by Alan B

Matt wrote, in another thread, that torrents are not allowed here.

That's fine, but I am wondering where they document this? Torrents are not piracy. Most linux CDs are distributed this way, as well as other legal content. I would assume it would be in the TOS if they did not want people uploading legal torrents.

[Alan B]

Piracy is not the sole issue here. WHB also wants to ensure that high-resource uses such as torrent or video downloading do not occur on shared hosting plans. That could consume too many resources and impair performance for other clients on the server.