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3500 a year is significantly less than hiring someone to do it for you.
by dec0dedab0de 5y ago
3500 a year is significantly less than hiring someone to do it for you.
- foepys 5y agoLet's not kid ourselves that this requires a full-time position. I bet you can hire some agency to do this for you for a few hundred bucks.
- robbedpeter 5y agoPricing designed to exploit people who don't know what they don't know, when it boils down to 30 seconds or less of information about vps hosting - that's pretty crappy to do to people. It does create a market opportunity for small shops / agencies. Even charging $500 an hour for an initial setup would be fair, since you can template the server deployments and set up small business video hosting pretty trivially. Really, though, you could follow a one page tutorial using Linode or Digital Ocean and the like, and scale your hosting to their plans. Vimeo is not going to survive long being the "bad guy" in this market. They need a visionary, but they've got conservative plodders.
- 999900000999 5y agoOnce you get done with the consulting fees and follow up work, 3500$ a year isn't bad. Vimeo isn't doing this to be mean. If it was easy to do it an affordable manner, I'm a sure one of us techies could whip it up ( a Video hosting service )in about a week or two, but I strongly suspect you'd end up losing money.
- hkt 5y agoI suspect not. A VPS on the order of £10/month could do this fairly well, and I've seen managed services options at £50/hour/month. Even assuming half a day to set up standard monitoring services etc, and another to set up someone's choice of FLOSS video hosting and blogging platform of choice. Subsequent years won't have the outlay of the first either.
- ipaddr 5y agoI will gladly ftp your video files to a 5 dollar server for a reasonable rate. Dollar a video..