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Compare RTMP Hosting from $9/month

First, read more about RMTP hosting and Estimate your RTMP hosting needs.

HOSTING TYPE
FEATURES		 REMOTE
RTMP		 PREMIUM
WOWZA		 PREMIUM
RED5		 VPS
RED5		 DEDICATED
RED5		 DEDICATED
WOWZA
Starting Price $9 $50 $50 $60 $250 $300
Avg. Setup Time 1 day 1 day 1 day 3 days 5 days 5 days
Starting Bandwidth 1000 Gb 2000 Gb 2500 Gb Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Bitrate Limit Variable 1000 Mbps 1000 Mbps 100 Mbps 1000 Mbps 1000 Mbps
Users Limit Variable Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Live Streaming Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Video Chat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Video Recording No Yes NR NR NR Yes
HLS, MPEG DASH No Yes No No No Yes
24/7 IP Camera No Yes No No No Yes
VOD No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Custom RTMP Apps No Reviewed Reviewed Yes Yes Yes
RTMP Session Control No Yes No No No Yes
Web Hosting No CPanel CPanel Plesk* WHM CPanel WHM CPanel
Starting Space No 30 Gb 33 Gb 20 Gb 4 000 Gb 4 000 Gb
Dedicated IP No Yes Yes Yes Multiple Multiple
Plans RTMP Host Wowza Host Red5 Host Red5 VPS Red5 Dedicated Wowza Dedicated
Clarifications:

  • NR = Not Recommended. Red5 can be used for recording/archiving but often produced skipped frames in our tests.
  • Plesk = Managed web hosting on VPS is based on Plesk for 10 domains.
  • CPanel = Managed web hosting with a CPanel account. Higher plans allow multiple domains.
  • WHM CPanel = Host unlimited domains, cpanel accounts.

Also compare hosting types on Host RTMP. For more details and clarifications, contact VideoWhisper.

Compare Video Hosting for Business

Compare and review top video hosting providers for business (host video ads, pay per view videos, restricted access video on demand, big videos/documentaries/movies/series, adult videos, own player with own ads and/or access control).

High volume providers with plans that can handle at least 5000 Gb transfer per month were considered.

Monthly Transfer Price Comparison

[table]

;Wistia;Vzaar;Cincopa;VideoWhisper;VideoShareVOD

1 Tb;$300;$200;$249.95;$50*;$20

5 Tb;$750;$500;$900;$100;$100

15 Tb;$1500;-;$2700;$200;$200**

50 Tb;$3000;-;-;$250;$250**

[/table]

*Entry plan for VideoWhisper comes with 2Tb/month.
**VideoShareVOD provides dynamic VOD hosting as multiples of the $20/mo plan. For higher volume than 5 units it’s more affordable to take the higher VideoWhisper hosting options.

Yearly Transfer Price Comparison

Some providers have better deals for plans paid yearly:

[table]

;Vzaar;VideoWhisper

1 Tb/mo;$1920/y;$400/y

5 Tb/mo;$4800/y;$1000/y

15 Tb/mo;-;$2000/y

50 Tb/mo;-;$3500/y

100 Tb/mo;-;$4800/y

[/table]

Average Bandwidth for Monthly Transfer

This estimates continuous bandwidth use (connection) required on server to consume the monthly transfer amount, continuously. Values are estimated by dividing total monthly transfer to seconds in a month and converting to bps.

[table]

Monthly Transfer ; Average Bandwidth

1 Tb ; 3 Mbps

5 Tb ; 15 Mbps

15 Tb ; 46 Mbps

30 Tb ; 93 Mbps

50 Tb; 154 Mbps

100 Tb ; 308 Mbps

[/table]

As seen in table above, to consume over 30 Tb/month a regular 100 Mbps server connection is not enough.
That’s why most providers can’t handle volumes over 30Mbps on their servers, even if used fluently.

Bad thing about such providers with 100 Mbps connection is that they can’t handle traffic spikes. With a 100Mbps maximum transfer that can occur in theory in a day is 1Tb.  That means even if plan includes 30Tb/month, if there’s a surge of visitors in some days and require more than the average,  they will not be able to access content due to connection limits.

From offers above, it looks like only VideoWhisper provides 1000Mbps Video Hosting and maybe Wistia while rest use 100Mbps servers.