"rremde" wrote:"dyanmicj9" wrote:
They just gave me a price per GB bandwidth. Yep its cheaper than wistia and s3. (sliding rate card style)
Thanks for the CDN advice. I'm familiar with the term but i don't know how it really works.
So If I have a 600 hours long course and I'm selling to my members. Where should I host them? Do you have any suggestions?
A CDN is the point where viewers access the video. They may or may not host the files.
There are a number of other factors to consider:
How technical are you? Vimeo provides a very non-technical method to upload, store and stream your video. They make it easy to set up playlists. Letting them do that for you can allow you to spend more time selling your course, and focusing on your business.
How large are your files? Vimeo charges you bandwidth for the entire file when someone starts to watch, even if they only watch a few minutes of an hour long video. To get around that you might want to investigate a CDN who will do HLS streaming conversion for you on the fly. On Vimeo's system, we were consuming 400TB/month - after switching CDNs, we're doing similar volume but only using 168TB/month. That's because we're only paying for the video actually watched.
We have an account with Inxy.com, and use UCDN as our CDN. They transcode to HLS on the fly, and we're well under one cent per GB. But we have to create and maintain our own playlists/apps.
Yes. 90% of my views are from Ashburn, but very, very few of those result in actual watch-time per Vimeo's stats. Apparently, Vimeo is counting 100% bandwidth for each of those views, even if there is little or no watch time.
I've scaled back my file size hoping that'll reduce bandwidth usage. Apparently, I'm in the top 1% bandwidth usage at 2.5-2.9TB/month, and they're forcing me to cut back or upgrade to a higher bandwidth plan ($4K/month for 35TB/year)
