Re:YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science vide...
by jasode on Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:08PM
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>but please, host secondary copies yourself
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as asking nicely. Self-hosting costs money especially with huge files like videos. If you have a cheap hosting plan with something like 500 gigabytes of bandwidth and you have a moderately popular video, the web visitors will get a "bandwidth exceeded" error message. Self-hosting videos is a huge costly leap over serving static HTML files.
Hosting videos on others' platforms like YouTube/Vimeo/etc gets past the bandwidth constraint.
Re:YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science vide...
by jdormit on Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:21PM
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That's true. An alternative could simply be hosting on multiple platforms - at least that way you'll have a backup plan if a service deletes your content.
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as asking nicely. Self-hosting costs money especially with huge files like videos. If you have a cheap hosting plan with something like 500 gigabytes of bandwidth and you have a moderately popular video, the web visitors will get a "bandwidth exceeded" error message. Self-hosting videos is a huge costly leap over serving static HTML files.
Hosting videos on others' platforms like YouTube/Vimeo/etc gets past the bandwidth constraint.