Recommended hosting for video course files?

Posted by ashamia on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:11AM
from the self-post dept.

Hi! We have a library of files, 500Mb each containing an hour-long video course.

We would like to serve them online, globally, and expect an average traffic of several hundreds of users per day.

would a CDN be an absolute must? Which services, other than than Amazon CloudFront / S3, are available? Does Google have any CDN offering?

thanks a bunch!

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Re:Recommended hosting for video course files? by nilssonanders on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:55AM (#5497361)

Are the files public? Then perhaps just use youtube.

If you need a CDN, CDN77 has worked fine for me at a reasonable price.

I'd start hosting them on a separate domain first, then move that to a CDN if necessary.

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Re:Recommended hosting for video course files? by ashamia on Friday April 05, 2013 @05:24AM (#5497419)

thanks, will take a look at CDN77

any idea whether Google Cloud Storage is suitable for such task?

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Re:Recommended hosting for video course files? by philtar on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:52AM (#5497356)

Have you thought of youtube?

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Re:Recommended hosting for video course files? by ashamia on Friday April 05, 2013 @05:09AM (#5497386)

we intend the service to be subscription-based, and therefore need to put the files behind a paywall

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