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    How do I create an on line Shop

    I want to open an on line shop selling MP4 video files. I also want the shop to have various one minute MP4 clips of each file which will be in way of introducing the potential customer to that particular file and the clips shall be available to freely download.
    Initially I intend the shop to have around 100GB of file space, but I want to have the facility to add more files (and therefore size) at a later date.
    After the start up of the on line shop I want the visitors that have purchased a download of one or more of the MP4 files to be able to register with a forum that’ll be part of the web site. I would need to administer all postings to the site prior to the posting being able to be viewed by the outside world. Similarly I want the customer to be able to upload any relevant clips that they have for possible addition to later MP4 files, once again I’d want to administer the uploaded clips prior to outside viewing.
    Advice is needed –
    a) An ISP that will offer the technical ability to create such an on line shop
    b) An ISP that will offer hosting of a large video content that will grow and develop over time
    c) Facility/software for a customer to be offered the opportunity to register for membership of the forum
    d) The software involved in registering an individual and identifying them at a later date
    e) The ISP would need to offer the tools necessary for me to be an administrator of the forum

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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

    I've moved this to a better forum. As the description says, Question Time is for discussion of current affairs, etc.

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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

    OK. What do the mp4 files represent perchance? I assume this isn't a personal venture? I assume you're going to be paying whomever comes up with a solution? You won't find an ISP that will do this all for you, you're going to want to talk to an agency.
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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

    Yamangman is right, you'd either need to do one of two options, write the code to support this kind of enterprise or get your cheque book open and write away at least £20k for it to be done on a small scale or upwards of £2million if you are looking at heavy commercial enterprise.

    Plus if the videos are large which i'm assume they would be the hosting costs would be horrendous.

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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

    If you are thinking of making it yourself, and I assume you have no website design knowledge, it would be very difficult to make a complex site such as that. The type of site your talking about, I can design and have developed for you. (Don't do adult sites though I'm afraid) You would need a host that will allow you to have alot of transfer bandwith for large vids.

    The ISP doesn't really have anything to do with the site, the site is fully yours.

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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

    Quote Originally Posted by TiG View Post
    Plus if the videos are large which i'm assume they would be the hosting costs would be horrendous.

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    Dedicated server or clustered servers. I don't think a webhost would be able to provide that.

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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

    The "hosting costs" would likely be at a data centre. Its still hosting costs.

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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

    How would I go about finding out more on a dedicated server or clustered servers? And why wouldn't a webhost be able to supply what I'm looking for? The comments from TiG are confusing me also - The "hosting costs" would likely be at a data centre. Its still hosting costs.

    I hope someone can explain all this.

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    Re: How do I create an on line Shop

    he was talking about hosting costs at the datacenter but I took it from his previous post thinking he was talking about the webhosting costs.

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