Dhtml

[US2Canada]

Hope this is the right place to put this inquiry. Looking into purchasing some new website software that allows for Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHTML). I've had no experience with this at all - but I'm wanting to learn. (At the moment I have a very status website.) Just want to make sure that Hostmonster supports DHTML. We also want to do some streaming video . . . HM says we've got unlimited bandwidth - does that mean streaming is supported, too?

[shadmego]

As far as I know, DHTML is simply a combination of other languages to make a webpage "dynamic", or interactive and animated.

The main language that does this is javascript. If you know how to build a web page and you know javascript, you can create your own DHTML pages without having to spend any money at all. And Hostmonster supports all the languages required to create a dynamic HTML site.

As far as streaming videos is concerned, as long as your streaming process does not go over the processor limits for your account, you should be alright. I'm not as familiar with streaming technologies as I probably should be so I can't tell you if streaming is process-intensive, but if it is, then you would have cause to worry. HM bandwidth might be unlimited, but their processor limits are pretty stringent.

There have been more than a few discussions about processor usage times in the boards here so a quick search will provide plenty of information on the subject.

~regards

[sjlplat]

I am working on a streaming video site for a local television show that streams up to 1-hour video clips. So far I haven't experienced any problems, but the site is designed to stream a single video at a time based on time scheduling. I'm working on an on-demand feature but I don't expect that feature to be live for a few weeks.

Based on my experience, I think flash-based streams are fairly safe in terms of processor utilization. They're somewhat small files and decoding is performed on the client side. Essentially all you're doing is delivering a file to the browser.

If you're looking to do server-side media conversion, Hostmonster will not work for you.