"dyanmicj9" wrote:
@StevenEsq2[/url:x6e0j2ly][/color] How much did Vimeo quote you?
Also, Do you know the volume of the Free Bandwidth included in your plan?
And Did they tell you how much you exceeded?
Like fore example Base Plan 10TB, Exceeded 20 TB so 20TB is $1000
Can you see a bandwidth usage report?
Vimeo doesn't quote a bandwidth number. Their bandwidth is free as long as you play within their player, but if you're streaming on Roku, you're not using their player.
They don't publish hard and fast numbers for bandwidth, but it's not part of their business plan to be a CDN for outside (Roku) services.
The numbers they quote is for storage, not bandwidth.
There is no bandwidth report - they just tell you the number of plays.
As I said, they don't WANT to be a CDN. Their sales pitch tells the whole story - they want to cost effectively stream high quality content for creators from their system. If that's not what you're doing, you're bending their rules, and if you're playing a lot of video, they need to adjust your account so you don't lose them money.
When we spoke a couple of years ago, they didn't own their own CDN infrastructure - they were purchasing it from another vendor (which is common practice). At the time, they were paying more than I could obtain, so it didn't make sense to do business with them.
The benefit of using Vimeo is to test your system, get your business/channel up and running - but knowing that you'll need to move your content elsewhere if you're successful.
