Assuming you have the skills, you can, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had buffering issues on the client side. You'd also have to re-implement access contro

Assuming you have the skills, you can, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had buffering issues on the client side. You'd also have to re-implement access controls and probably integrate a not-terrible video player. There might be open source software that does that, but nothing springs to my mind. I've got the skills to do it, and $300/month seems high, but not unreasonable. That $300 a month frees me from doing updates, having to wake up at 3am because the site is down, having to transcode my own videos for lower-bandwidth clients, etc. It's probably roughly on par with paying someone else to do all of that stuff.