Running software for website

So say i wanted to turn my site in to one of those video upload sites like youtube or something. or basically anything that would require running a program(to convert videos to flv in this case). what would my webhost need to support in order to do this?

>>1
CGI, abilty to execute arbitrary programs, Unix-like OS.

>>2
Any os will do, cgi is not necessary either

>>1
PHP can execute processes.

heres what ive got:

# FreeBSD (Unix) operating system and Apache servers
# PHP version 4.3.11 and support for hundreds of PHP functions
# Perl version 5.8.7 and support for the standard library plus 12 additional modules
# MySQL 4.1, with unlimited databases

thats everything that looked relevant. could i pull it off with this?

>>5
could i pull it off with this?
INNUENDO

>>5
PHP 4.3 is severely outdated, strongly recommend you use PHP 5.2 (lang/php5). Same deal with MySQL -- consider installing databases/mysql51-server instead of using an old branch.

Really though, if you're asking for such general help, I doubt any of the technical details are going to matter to you -- you're probably better off looking for a canned software package which does what you want, and then installing what it needs rather than guessing ahead of time.

>>1
Python

>>7
this is just what my host is giving me. so im checking out everything i can use it for. ive got unlimited storage and data transfer so i can pretty much go nuts as long as their software supports it.

it's all about postgreSQL, MySQL is for cunts

MySQL or haxing my anus

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ruby on rails

Seaside, Sqlite, and AJAX.

anus on hax

You need a webhost that doesn't mind you stealing all their megahertz.

>>9
That's a fairly shitty host you've got there. If you've got shell access, consider building your own version of PHP and telling Apache to use it either with a .htaccess file (will require reading documentation). I'd personally dump the host if they didn't give shell access though.

Ultimately, you're really asking the wrong questions. The question should not be ``will I be able to do X with Y and Z'', but rather ``with what software package should I do X''. The former question is answered by the later.

I think what you're going to run into is that many Youtube clone packages use obscure extensions (like ffmpeg-php) which your host isn't going to have and isn't going to want to install. Without running a custom PHP binary, you're going to be shit out of luck.

Anyway, this thread isn't about programming, and belongs elsewhere. If you have specific programming questions, that's one thing. Otherwise

hax my anus.

>>17
programming questions belong to /pr/. But /prog/ sucks so much right now that threads like this one are fine

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