Hello everyone, I have 2 scenarios questions concerning what should I sign up for as I am going to launch my site very soon but I do want to have cost/effective hardware.
I am not a coder I am just the project manager.


Scenario 1 :
There will be a community with large online members maybe 1000 - 3000 at the same time, everyone has his own profile and will have a survey of some kind with processing of his results into an image to be share-able.

Scenario 2 :
The community has the ability of allowing " some " users to record 1 minute of video and upload it to our website to be visible to anyone who has the link. the video - If I know right - will be resized to fit " internet storage/viewing " and maybe watermarked as well . expected responses are 1000 minutes to be uploaded / processed daily ( there is a limit of uploaded videos and auto deletion after 1 month means there will be at least 30.000 minutes online at the same time..



My question is:
For every scenario of those what should I look for?
RAMs? processor? storage? bandwidth ?
etc... and how much resources to sign up at the beginning ?


Also, I know there are scripts - as I understood from some search work - which can process and minimize the size of video which will be stored and streamed online ... 1 minute of video equals how much Megabytes?