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Video Sharing Web Sites seem all the rage right now, and a quick check on Alexa reveals that traffic to the established sites is soaring. So how to get in on the action and set up your own video sharing site.

1. Firstly you’ll have to decide whether to offer a mainstream video sharing site like YouTube. Starting off small, I’d suggest going after a small niche, in order that you can rank well for that niche in the search engines. A niche might be sports, funny video’s or howto’s, such as cooking or computer maintenance.

2.Once you’ve decided on your niche, the next step is a great domain name for your site. This domain should ideally be short and memorable (though many of the short domains have now been taken). There are two approaches, use some of the keywords for niche in your domain, or think of a unique zany one, the latter is what a lot of Web 2.0 sites do.

3. Obviously you will need a web host for your video site. The cheapest option would be to go for shared hosting. So you may need a more specialist video provider. Once your site gets established you will need more resources, perhaps a dedicated server. A virtual private server is a good compromise.

4. Standard shared hosting might not meet the software requirements of running video hosting. Almost certainly you will need to ensure your shared web host has installed ffmpeg. FFmpeg is a software that converts video to .flv format or any video format.

5. You visitors will want to upload their video’s. These will be in different formats. If you have used YouTube you will know that they encode your uploaded video’s into a flash format (.flv files). This requires specialist modules to be installed in your hosting account or dedicated server. These are ffmeg, ffmpeg-php, libogg