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1. stoneymusic
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hello everyone,

   I would very much like some help and suggestions from all you WP guru's!

   I am about to set up a members web site that will host a lot of video tutorials. I currently have a text/image based Joomla website (www.drumlessonsbeginner.com) but am in need of expanding to a new multi-media educational site.

   The reason I mention this is because at the moment I am considering WP to be a better option for my site. I am planning to use the Thesis theme which seems to be a popular paid choice, it's stable and user friendly. I have also come across a module called wishlistmember that will handle the membership section, I hope?

   What I would like to know is can WP be used for a video heavy membership website with possibly 50-100+ video tutorials that need to be laid out in a intuitive and educational way? Or should I be sticking to Joomla? or am I just nuts doing this on my own??!!

   I have a hostgator account currently for my Joomla site.

   Many thanks for any input it is really appreciated.

   Darren Stone

2. wordprest
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   the possibility to manage properly lots of video, sounf or image files, is not to the CMS; it depends mainly from the server you are hosted, bandwith, cpu speed and usage, and so on.

3. stoneymusic
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Thanks for you response wordprest.

   I had thought that this would probably be the case. I have a host gator baby account which allows for 'Unlimited Disk Space' and 'Unlimited Bandwidth' although I have heard this is somewhat of a misnomer?

   Will this work for me ok?

   Also I assume from the response that WP would be a good platform to use?

   regards

4. wordprest
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Worpress appears to be good, altough I never head experience with a certain number of media files. As CMS it should work fine I guess, but the real streaming performance is given by server features. Unlimited doesn't exist; anyway there will be some kind of limitation, so evaluate this properly; better spend some money more than have a misfunctioning site...

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