Tube site hosting
Storage-heavy, bandwidth-heavy infrastructure for video-sharing platforms — the workload that breaks generic hosting. Big disks, NVMe cache, unmetered pipes.
Best-fit dedicated plans
These are the closest stock plans in our catalogue for Tube site hosting workloads. Fully customizable — port, storage, RAM, DDoS profile.
Xeon E5-2690 v3 · 128 GB · 10G
2× Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 v3 · 128 GB DDR4 ECC · 2× 512GB NVMe · 10 Gbit/s unmetered · DDoS-protected
Dual Xeon Gold 6138 · 128 GB · up to 100G
2× Intel® Xeon® Gold 6138 · 128 GB DDR4 ECC · 2× 1TB NVMe · 10/20/40/100 Gbit unmetered
Xeon Platinum 8168 · 256 GB · 4× NVMe
1× Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 · 256 GB DDR4 ECC · 4× 1.92TB NVMe · configurable bays
About Tube site hosting
A tube site is two infrastructure problems stacked: unbounded storage growth (uploads never stop) and a brutally skewed read pattern (10% of videos get 1000+ views, 90% get under 5). Solving both cheaply is what separates a profitable tube site from one bleeding money on hosting.
Storage: a tube site doing 800 GB/day of uploads kept 12 months needs ~290 TB/year of capacity. Our [storage servers](/storage) give you big HDD arrays (RAID-Z2, up to 60 TB usable per box) for the cold long tail, plus an [NVMe hot tier](/nvme-dedicated-server) for the popular 10% that gets hammered. See the full [storage sizing math](/blog/storage-sizing-for-streaming-and-file-hosting).
Bandwidth: delivery is HLS from an origin, cached at the edge. Unmetered ports (no fair-use cap) mean you're not throttled at peak. For scale, put a [CDN edge fleet](/cdn) in front of the origin. Transcoding user uploads is offloaded to [GPU servers](/gpu) with NVENC — see our [FFmpeg NVENC guide](/how-to/ffmpeg-nvenc-transcoding).
DDoS is constant at this scale. Always-on scrubbing (up to 1.2 Tbps) is included on every tier. Legal adult and mainstream video platforms are both welcome; CSAM and non-consensual content are hard-prohibited per our [AUP](/aup).
Frequently asked questions
How much storage does a tube site need?
Depends on upload volume and retention. A site doing 800 GB/day kept 12 months needs ~290 TB/year. We build HDD bulk + NVMe hot cache to keep cost per TB down. See our storage sizing guide.
Can you handle user-upload transcoding?
Yes — offload transcoding to a GPU server with NVENC. One RTX PRO 4500 handles 8-12 concurrent 1080p ABR ladders. See our FFmpeg NVENC how-to.
Do you allow adult tube sites?
Yes, legal age-verified consensual content. See our adult hosting page. CSAM and non-consensual content are strictly prohibited.