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I'm looking into launching my own digital product, and it will be in the form of 15 videos - these videos are between 15 MB and 50 MB each... I'm looking into getting shared hosting through HostGator but I'm not sure that will be sufficient. I know it largely depends on how many people are downloading at one time.....do you think I'll go over my CPU usage limit or Memory usage limit if say 10-20 are downloading these videos at a time? These will be in the form of ZIP files, so it won't be streaming or anything. To recap: 15 Videos. Each between 15 MB and 50 MB each. Should I go with shared hosting, VPS hosting, or get a dedicated server? Anyone know of any solutions for these files?

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2. bandwidth is the important thing when you are hosting a bunch of videos, be it for online viewing or downloading. if the number of visitors are expected to be on the high end, VPS hosting will be a better choice compare with shared hosting where you will be sharing with number of other websites.
3. If you are like to pay by how much you use you should check out below. http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
4. Hey D A, Host Gator should be able to handle it, although other users gave you some good advice also. The files aren't THAT big (as compared to other downloads) but still you never know how much your product is going to sell...