What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?

Hello,

I'm a newbie to the video streaming world and I'm looking for honest advice. I have my own cloud server for my websites but I want to start hosting and streaming my videos from my server and not leave it in the hands of YouTube or anyone else where I don't have any control.

I know there's a few options to host and stream videos and one of them is waiting for the entire file to download before it plays. That just cant happen.

What are the pros using to stream their own videos on their servers? Any advice would be appreciated...

Gerek