[thelist] Streaming Question??

[Bill Haenel]

> The site is hosted on a basic yahoo
> account...no streaming capabilities that I know of

I don't know about yahoo specifically, but you will probably find that you
are able to use http streaming just fine. Just link to the ram and see if it
completely downloads the file to your machine before playing. If it doesn't
(i.e. it streams), it's probably streaming via http.

> How many users can access that file at the
> same time? One is my guess, but I wasn't sure

Probably more. It will depend on the server/streaming method.

> Can anyone reccomend a good, inexpensive host w/ streaming capabilities?
> (Coldfusion and/or PHP would be helpful as well)

Experthost.com is my host of choice, and the more time passes, the more I
feel I would not change if you paid me. Inexpensive, reliable, and very
accommodating, I've just discovered. There have been a few things I wanted
them to change in the past, and with the exception of when they CAN't,
they've always done everything possible. They will install Real Server (at
n/c) if it doesn't already exist on the server you're hosted on.

BH