Hosting for clients

[Ollie]

Hi all,

Just a quick query to see if anyone hosts 360 spins/virtual tours themselves and then gives the client code to pull it from?

There are websites to do this, but not with customisable skins so I was wondering if anyone has a solution?

Thanks.

[Hopki]

Hi Ollie,
Did this myself a while back.
Nothing wrong with this but you need to have a good hosting provider.
If your hosting the spins and your server goes down so do all the spins on your customers websites!

The upside is you can get a trickle income from the hosting service you will be providing.
The hosting must have unlimited bandwidth, you don't want to hit any download limits, something like the business or professional hosting found here.

Regards,
Hopki

[Ollie]

Hi Ollie,
Did this myself a while back.
Nothing wrong with this but you need to have a good hosting provider.
If your hosting the spins and your server goes down so do all the spins on your customers websites!

The upside is you can get a trickle income from the hosting service you will be providing.
The hosting must have unlimited bandwidth, you don't want to hit any download limits, something like the business or professional hosting found here.

Regards,
Hopki

Thanks Hopki, at the moment we're hosting with Bluehosts for our website.

I'm a bit unsure as to the best approach, did you upload them to somewhere on your own website and then link them from there? If so, what code etc does the client need to be able to embed on their site?

We've been trying out sirv.com but the skin isn't editable and at present there's no hotspot functionality, but from an ease point of view it's really simple to just upload the images to their server and only need to provide one link.

Cheers,

Ollie.

[Hopki]

HI Ollie,
If you had a server just for hosting you can set up folders for each customer then sub folders for each project.
Upload using FTP

You then can give your customer a direct link and an iframe to embed the projects into their own website.
Example:
My hosting is http://objectvr.eu (actually a redirect to my Hopki Media hosting)
Then customer folder: HopkiMedia
Then a sub folder for each project, in this example: cup

So the link would look like:
http://objectvr.eu/HopkiMedia/cup
And the iFrame:

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<iframe src="http://objectvr.eu/HopkiMedia/cup" name="Cup" width="300" height="200" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" style="float:left; margin-left:0px" allowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>

To see what the iFrame looks like embedded in to a customer website I have added a basic web page to the Garden Gnome server which has two iframes each with different width and height settings.
This can be found here: http://support.ggno.me/HopkiMedia.html

The only thing I would say is when pricing is charge lots more for multi resolution project like this as the cup is 67MB on the server.
Regards.
Hopki