2020-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 | vSummitExperts

Super Fast Secure and Powerful Servers Backed by a CDN

Super Fast Secure and Powerful Servers cdn hls

You know DC’s super hero The Flash? He’s got nothing on us! We have super fast secure and powerful servers.

Money Transactions

All summit registrations will have Stripe payment gateway. In other words, your payments will be secure and your attendee information is safe from hackers. You can sign up with Stripe and have your payments sent directly to your bank account. To clarify we integrate safely with Stripe and Stripe connect for affiliate payments.

1. Event Pages

The summit pages: The platform is SSL encrypted for your speakers, attendees, and sponsors security. We use Stripe for payment which takes care of all transactions on their banks grade secure servers, therefore you are not liable if anything goes wrong. All pages are optimized out of the box (for both speed and search engines). And are hosted on a SSD server which then get distributed all over the world with a powerful CDN (Content Delivery Network). So if you are in the USA and you have an attendee in Australia, they will get the content served to them from a close by server so everything loads extremely fast.

2. Video Content

Our super fast secure and powerful server will host all pre-recorded videos. However, these video servers with it’s own video CDN that’s separate from our pages CDN. We apply advanced HLS encryption on all videos. No one can download your videos with a browser extension. As a result no one can steal your content from our servers unless you specifically ask us to allow video downloads. And if you are streaming a live presentation with us.

Our live streaming system uses the WebRTC technology, a fast end-to-end encrypted technology that does not require any downloads. Therefore any live stream will load fast in most browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Yandex). Similarly on any iphone, iOS, or Android (we can even stream to smart TV’s). Even if the attendee had a slow internet connection or located half way around the world. In short, all your attendees will be able to safely watch your talks in a Flash.

BONUS: We also have DDoS Attack prevention measures in place on these super fast secure and powerful servers.

Pre Recorded or Live Stream Virtual Events (or The Best of Both Worlds)

So you’re doing a virtual summit?

CONGRATS you will discover the power and exposure this will bring to your business. But now a question comes up: Should you pre record your talks with your speakers? Should you do a live stream? Or should you live stream the keynote then play the pre recorded talks videos according to the summit schedule?

Pre Recorded?

We always suggest the pre recorded route. Why? Great question! And the answer is simple. You will avoid any glitches, technical issues, and many things that could go wrong during a live stream. How many times have you attended an in-person conference and before the speaker starts talking their is a mic issue or the presentation is not working with the projector, or (my favorite) the one person that interrupts the speaker constantly. By having a pre recorded presentations, you can avoid all of that. And to clarify, it will only play when it’s scheduled so the attendees won’t know the difference. Not to mention, your virtual attendees can use one of our many tools to interact with the speaker and ask questions at the end or at any point of the presentation as the speaker would choose since they will be online during the event on their talk page.

Live Stream?

If you want to offer your attendees the live stream route, no worries, we got you covered. We have the ability to stream live to your conference page, youtube live, linkedin live, facebook live and periscope. Just keep in mind that the amount of attendees for live streams are always less than the pre recorded sessions due to bandwidth. Speaking of bandwidth, unless you’ve hired a professional AV team with a high uplink bandwidth (100 Mbps to 300 Mbps), you should expect a lag during the stream and the possibility of poor quality videos. We do not recommend Zoom for it’s many issues. But no worries, we have awesome more powerful alternatives.

Virtual Event Setup in Just 2 Days

2 Days Virtual Event / Summit / Conference Setup

That’s right. Our virtual summit team of experts will help you setup your entire virtual event in just 2 days. And we’re not talking business days, yes, we just said that your entire virtual summit will be setup in under 48 hours from the moment you or your company signs our contract, to the full pages, video platform, accepting payments from ticket sales and even sponsors.

What you can expect in exactly 2 days? From past experiences, our team has figured out that there are 3 ways you can setup your virtual event with us. The fastest way is to setup your virtual summit or conference from scratch on our super fast and powerful servers.

Example: ABC company wanted to create a virtual conference with 10 speakers that will start in 30 days.

Our solution in just 10 simple steps:

1. VSE and ABC company agrees on the terms and sign a contract (Day 0)

2. VSE gets all the necessary info (Day 0)

3. VSE works their magic and start creating the virtual event (Day 1)

4. At the same time ABC company will receive our full on-boarding steps (Day 1)

5. If all speakers and sponsors info and materials (photos/logos) are ready, VSE will add it to the virtual event pages (Day 2)

6. At the same time VSE will implement the registration pages, payments, schedules, and email sequence (Day 2)

7. VSE delivers the virtual summit site and start working along ABC company throughout the end of the conference (Day 2)

8. That’s it.

9. Now that everything is in place, VSE will start working with speakers to record their talks or PowerPoint presentation (We now support Prezi). We will then start editing the videos and upload them to our secure servers. Our current team can edit up to 6 hours of videos per day (we will expand soon), so for the sake of this example (10 talks around 1 hour each) it will take VSE about 2 days to have the videos edited and uploaded. (Day 3 and 4)

10. VSE will work along side ABC company for any edits or updates and test everything multiple times until the day of the virtual conference and also during the conference.

You see, we’ve done a TON of research on the competition and know that it takes them a week to create a landing page, then weeks to edit and host videos, and without testing, things did not work out correctly and it was very painful for us. WE ARE HERE TO GIVE YOU A SEAMLESS EXPERIENCE.

On Boarding: All Aboard the Virtual Event Train

On Boarding

No one likes complications and our team is really awesome that way. To remove any confusion and to speed things up. We are using a 3rd party on-boarding software that serves as a to-do checklist. You can call it our documentation or help pages if you would.

Once we finalize the contract and setup your initial event pages. We will send you an on boarding for summit hosts step by step list that will make your life easier. We will then contact your speakers and give them another thorough checklist so they have a seamless experience as well.

The way this will work is as follows:

Firstly, we finalize our virtual event services with a contract. Secondly, we will setup your summit initial pages within 2 business days. Immediately after, we will send you (the host) a link to our on boarding checklist. At the same time we will send another on boarding checklist to your virtual event speakers. This will take you through everything you need to do as a host. As a result, it will instantly eliminate the work load on your side of gathering your speakers info by giving them instructions of how to accomplish their tasks from uploading their photo, bio, social links, to the instructions on how to record the talk video and how to manage the chat for the Q&A session with our event moderators.

Although we found out this is very helpful method. We are always here to help you if the on-boarding process was not enough.

Let’s get on board of the virtual summit train together. CHOO-CHOO!

Update: We have now integrated a new workflow method to help you and your speakers get setup quickly and easily. As part of welcoming you to our virtual event platform. We have designed a workflow process to help you get on board and be setup in no time. We’ve written an article about it.