Hosting for video files
Hello. I am new to the forum and to Roku development. I had a question about hosting video files for the Roku channel. What services can I use? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Forum Discussion
"sftv" wrote:
I'll look into DB again. I'm curious how DropBox, as they state use AmazonS3 servers for storage, offers 250gb daily bandwidth on a paid account for $9.99/month. Only possible show stopper is: Streaming videos are cropped at five minutes.
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Amazon S3 pricing:
Storage: First 1 TB / month $0.140 per GB
Transfer: Up to 10 TB / month $0.120 per GB
Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, 20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests, and 15GB of data transfer out each month for one year.
Videos aren't cropped at 5 mins...we have content well over 5 minutes and they streamed fine via DB.
I did the math and with the package we got, it comes out to .04 per GB for both the storage AND the bandwidth (30GB storage - 1,000GB bw). Unless I'm missing something, seems a bit better than AWS since 1,000GB of bw would cost $120, plus the cost of storage.
