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Quote:"So that's how I moved off Vimeo and started hosting my video content myself" No, no and no. You still don't host your video content yourself. You simply

Quote:"So that's how I moved off Vimeo and started hosting my video content myself" No, no and no. You still don't host your video content yourself. You simply found another cheaper service and despite your claim this isn't some paid ad (quote: "This really isn't any sort of paid or sponsored content crap for Bunny."), it's exactly that.

cxr 6y ago
That looks like a few too many "no"s in response to the quote. See http://blog.bellebcooper.com/leaving-microblog.html http://blog.bellebcooper.com/leaving-microblog.html for a good breakdown of two different viewpoints about how people think of ownership. Whether they're paying someone else for infrastructure is hardly remarkable. Almost no one is completely off the grid. (Do you have your own power substation?) The author controls his own namespace, so he can swap it out any time and do so seamlessly. Contrast to Vimeo or YouTube where you have no control at this level.
lizardmancan 6y ago
diy would be a 5 euro usb2 drive and a torrent
celsoazevedo 6y ago
He seems to be using them as a CDN, not to host the video files. There's no reason for this not to work without a CDN (I do it on one of my sites, where a CDN isn't really needed). Regarding Bunny, it may be a paid ad, but they do have very cheap prices. CDNs starting at 0.005/GB with pops in NA, Europe, and Asia are hard to find.
jedimastert 6y ago
> "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan At what point would you call it self-hosting? Keeping it on his own servers? Rolling his own CDN? Bare-metal in a server farm?
jedimastert 6y ago
(separate comment for separate discussion) > despite your claim this isn't some paid ad (quote: "This really isn't any sort of paid or sponsored content crap for Bunny."), it's exactly that. I don't understand this comment. Do you have some sort of proof that the CDN reached out to the author, or even knows he exists outside of a CMS? I've seen this sentimentality a lot, where people aren't allowed to talk about a service or a product positively without some sort of money being involved or sneaky guy-in-a-trenchcoat bs. I really don't understand it.
unethical_ban 6y ago
* You're ascribing deceit where there is no proof. * He's doing IaaS instead of SaaS. Different layers.

cxr 6y ago

That looks like a few too many "no"s in response to the quote. See http://blog.bellebcooper.com/leaving-microblog.html http://blog.bellebcooper.com/leaving-microblog.html for a good breakdown of two different viewpoints about how people think of ownership. Whether they're paying someone else for infrastructure is hardly remarkable. Almost no one is completely off the grid. (Do you have your own power substation?) The author controls his own namespace, so he can swap it out any time and do so seamlessly. Contrast to Vimeo or YouTube where you have no control at this level.

lizardmancan 6y ago

diy would be a 5 euro usb2 drive and a torrent

celsoazevedo 6y ago

He seems to be using them as a CDN, not to host the video files. There's no reason for this not to work without a CDN (I do it on one of my sites, where a CDN isn't really needed). Regarding Bunny, it may be a paid ad, but they do have very cheap prices. CDNs starting at 0.005/GB with pops in NA, Europe, and Asia are hard to find.

jedimastert 6y ago

> "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan At what point would you call it self-hosting? Keeping it on his own servers? Rolling his own CDN? Bare-metal in a server farm?

jedimastert 6y ago

(separate comment for separate discussion) > despite your claim this isn't some paid ad (quote: "This really isn't any sort of paid or sponsored content crap for Bunny."), it's exactly that. I don't understand this comment. Do you have some sort of proof that the CDN reached out to the author, or even knows he exists outside of a CMS? I've seen this sentimentality a lot, where people aren't allowed to talk about a service or a product positively without some sort of money being involved or sneaky guy-in-a-trenchcoat bs. I really don't understand it.

unethical_ban 6y ago

* You're ascribing deceit where there is no proof. * He's doing IaaS instead of SaaS. Different layers.