Why Choose ChilliBean?

The Marketing Power of SohoSoHo

SohoSoHo has been racking up some pretty impressive statistics. Our directory gets 15,000 unique visits per month from over 130 countries. Half of these visitors are new to SohoSoHo, meaning our audience is continually growing. Users can view activity reports for all public reels, detailing number of views and the viewing countries. Our bi-weekly newsletter goes out to over 80,000 recipients. Features and news story viewing stats are recorded and can be supplied on demand.

Utilizing the Power of a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

ChilliVault serves your media through a global CDN which has 80 locations in 18 Countries. What does this mean? When a client is watching your reel in the USA, your media is being played from a node within that country. This means your media will load faster and play more reliably.

Industry scale transcoding and full screen playback

All media uploaded into ChilliVault, is transcoded using our Transcoding Farm meaning our transcodes are industry scale. Our transcoders ensure fast transcoding and because your media is natively playing back at 640x360 it produces high quality H264 Quicktimes - perfect for iphone and fullscreen playback.

ChilliVault stores your high res files (MPEG2, Pro res, DV and Uncompressed formats in both SD and HD) and optimizes them for web playback. For more information what you should be uploading to ensure the best quality contact our Support Team on 0845 054 4004.

Reliable uploading with Aspera

ChilliBean has integrated Aspera's fasp transfer technology which is an innovative software that eliminates the fundamental bottlenecks of conventional file transfer technologies such as FTP, HTTP, and Windows CIFS, and dramatically speeds transfers over public and private IP networks. File transfer times can be guaranteed, regardless of the distance of the endpoints or the dynamic conditions of the network, including even transfers over satellite, wireless, and inherently long distance and unreliable international links. Complete security is built-in, including secure endpoint authentication, on-the-fly data encryption, and integrity verification. For more information about Aspera, click here.

ChilliVault can power your website

If you host your media with us, we can supply that media to your company website - so no need to double up on hosting! This will ensure that the media playing on your website is the same high quality as SohoSoHo and your website can take advantage of our global CDN.

Backup, Backup, Backup

Chillibean's operations are spread over 3 sites - 2 hosting centres: Iomart and Pinewood, and our office. These centres feature dual independent power feeds, backup generator, fire suppression and 24hour security.