There is a constant development of this web hosting site. There are four versions of the websites that have been released yet. The latest version was released on 7th October, 2011. This version was 3.0.1. This was the most stable version of the wowza hosting released by the company. The previous versions were also remarkably efficient but, the latest version is loaded with all the advance features and latest design. This version is more interactive and attractive too. There were three previous versions of the hosting company that were released before the latest version. The first version, version 1.0 was released in the year 2007 on 19th February. The first version was originally meant as the alternative sources to Adobe Flash Media Servers. The first version supported streaming audio, video and RIA’s. The contents used encoding of Spark and VP6. The server interactions were based on Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). The original name of the version 1.0 was Wowza Media Server Pro. The next version, version 1.5 was released in the year 2008, on 15th May. The version had added many new features. The first feature added to the media server was support for Advance Audio Coding (AAC) and H.264 video. There was the introduction of Real time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), MPEG transport system (MPEG-TS), ICY (SHOUTcast/Icecast) and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). The next version, version 2.0 was released in December 2009. The name of the product was changed from Wowza Media Server Pro to Wowza Media Server 2. There was the addition of H.264 streaming support for the Apple iOS devices. The iOS devices use HTTP Live Streaming Protocol. The addiction of Microsoft Silverlight player, RTP for QuickTime player, and from mobile devices which were based on Android, Symbian, Palm OS and BlackBerry the integration of 3GPP was done. The latest version, version 3.0 has the addition of live transcoding, DRM plug-in functions and DVR.
There are lots of features of this hosting website. You can get the best media hosting here. You can use lots of space that is provided by the wowza servers. There are lots of media contents that can be demanded online or you can use live streaming options without any problems. The process is rapid, and there are several plans for the usage of tariff. You can access to almost any media content. You have access to on-demand videos and audios, streaming audios, videos, RTMP, RTS etc. There are some other features of the websites. The features such as the use of online radio re-streaming, interactive communications such as video chat, text and audio chat are also available. You can use screen sharing options too, play online games and many more.
