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I've had no luck in trying to make sense of the video CDN infrastructure and ecosystem. They seem designed for something completely different to what I've tryi
by ColinWright 7y ago
I've had no luck in trying to make sense of the video CDN infrastructure and ecosystem. They seem designed for something completely different to what I've trying to do, and inappropriate. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, or reading the wrong things, but people say "Just use a video CDN" and it just all looks irrelevant, inappropriate, or unusable.
Maybe I'm expecting it to be too simple and straight-forward, and everyone has to go through the same gazillion steps. No wonder YouTube is winning.
Quick example, fastly.com[0]
First 10 TB, $0.12. Sounds brilliant. Minimum per month, $50. Less brilliant.
Complete mis-match with my use case.
[0] https://www.fastly.com/pricing https://www.fastly.com/pricing
- PaulHoule 7y agoFast.ly has great marketing but I don't see where the value comes from. I have tested this service from AWS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/on-demand-streaming-video.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope... with friends n' family but haven't used it for production. It looks pretty complicated, but I think you could find a script somewhere that packs up your video properly and uploads it, you could get it down to one step and probably make it easier to upload than Youtube in the long term. I think the biggest reason why Youtube wins is being free, plus also being a big community with a lot of discovery. AWS does not have a minimum so it is better than fast.ly in that respect.
- ColinWright 7y agoThanks I'll check that out. I've also had PeerTube recommended.