I had to take down the Magnetosphere/Trentemoller video. I didn’t want to, and even looked in to other solutions, but in the end, it was causing more trouble than I had anticipated so it has been replaced by the Vimeo version.
I guess it was big in Germany.
Anyone know of a good hosting company that offers unlimited bandwidth for under 100 bucks a month? Do they even exist? It was probably naive of me to insist on posting 90MB videos but I hate having to trim down my videos or offer compressed flash versions because it really takes away from the effect. So where does one go when they need the ability to handle 500GB of transfer a day?
Anyone?
Only one thing I can do for you – I can publish this video on my fiew hostings, maybe some people download it and share into Torrent Networks or somethin like that… Thats video is great! Im full of emotions, when I wach it.. Like any othet thouthands of peoples, that try to download it…. This masterpiece must live!
Please, if you want, contact me MSN prostosergik@hotmail.com or mail, that I wrote in form, you must see that.
http://www.dreamhost.com has some great plans with lots of bandwidth, take a look! they even offer quicktime straming server for free
Yeah, I’d go Dreamhost too. I have some ridiculous thing like 2.5TB per month on my account. If you want full sized videos you could also consider seeding them as BitTorrents too. The popular ones will probably do well.
Hosting issues aside, I think it’s great to also post on video sharing sites with reasonable quality (vimeo looks pretty good, blip.tv is also not too bad), so people can embed videos in other sites when writing about your stuff. Lots of people write about your stuff, they want to put it on their websites, it would be rude of them to just embed the video whicih is hosted on your site (although I’m sure plenty have done just that, unless you’re expressly forbidding it with server kung foo).
One.com has unlimited bandwidth.
They are cheap as well.
http://www.one.com/en/
Bit torrent can definitely be a smart way, on the hosting the flash version and bit torrent for the high quality one.
Amazon S3, seriously. You only pay for the bandwidth and storage you use – we pushed 8000 copies of a video that was linked from a Digg story a few weeks back, and the bandwidth bill came to $3 total. They also do bittorrent for every upload automatically. The Mac S3 Browser is a non-terrible way to upload to S3: http://people.no-distance.net/ol/software/s3/
I second the bittorrent comment.
Indeed, look at amazon S3. Use the torrent option for the really large videos.
It seemed like serendipity that the very next feed I read after yours was the following via the ubiquitous digg – http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000807.html – technically here I’m looking up at the underside of the waves, depth wise; but if something from this article helps it helps
)
The Magnetosphere/Trentemoller video is quite remarkably special.
http://revido.de – flat rate for 2 EUR a month.
As a completely free option there are sites like rapidshare I think. You just have to watch an ad or something before downloading.
I am at mediatemple, their new grid server plan is very scalable, and cheap. Huge amounts of bandwidth.
Have you tried hosting videos at blip.tv ( http://blip.tv ) ? You can upload .flv files or any other movie format and use them to host them for free. Highly recommended!
I think I would like to avoid something like blip.tv which seems advertorial. Same reason I wouldn’t podcast either. I am using music without permission so ideally I would like to keep things localized to my site. I am going to look into the S3 option. And I will probably switch over to the Dreamhost plan because the one I use has a max plan of 500GB bandwidth with no option for overage charges… they will simply shut me down. I am guess I will get shut down mid month anyhow because of the damage from the Trentemoller video, so once that happens, I will go ahead and do the switch.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
You should consider putting your movies up for download on free hosts such as megaupload.com or rapidshare.com. That would also allow you to release even better quality mov’s.
If you’re dead set on hosting them youself, get yourself a cheap “media server” plan (site5, mediatemple, 1&1 etc.) who will give you a terabyte for a couple of dollers per month. Keep your “actual” site (with the images and text) on some more “premium” hosting, then maintain the other server(s) for hosting the videos. This way if you go over the video bandwidth, your whole site won’t go down, you’ll just have to redirect people to another server for the videos.
An enormous majority of videos hosted on blip.tv or youtube or anywhere else are using music without permission. Keeping them localized to your site won’t help anything, this is the internet! I’d say you’re going to find your videos popping up on these services anyway (it seems to happen quite a lot, people just upload whatever they find that seems popular), so you might as well do it in a way which you have some control over
One more recent S3 development: http://www.rjonna.com/ext/s3fox.php (I’ve not yet tried it)
Did you check archive.org and scene.org? I don’t know if they offer videostreaming, but hosting even of larger files should be of no problem for people like you. Otherwise Torrent could also be a good solution. Keep up good things!
please, share it by free hosting service!
>I guess it was big in Germany.
Or here in Austria…
What about Zudeo (http://www.zudeo.com/)? It’s build on BitTorrent and has a nice website to browse them too.
infact it was a recommented link from ehrensenf. a video blog by http://www.spiegel.de, the most read website of germany
the famous 15 sec.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/ehrensenf/0,1518,470108,00.html
[...] Related: sharing, stock, storage, video editing, vimeo, web, youtube & more. 0. By Jaymis. 2007-Mar-13@03:47. He Makes Sparta Look Hot: VFX in Frank Miller’s300 [...]