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Digitalocean spaces is $5 for 250 GB while Contabo offers the same for $2.49 / mo. I'm sure there are others too. I think DO also offers a free CDN with edge ca

Digitalocean spaces is $5 for 250 GB while Contabo offers the same for $2.49 / mo. I'm sure there are others too. I think DO also offers a free CDN with edge caching. If not, just put it behind a cloudflare or amazon cloudfront proxy and you can stream unlimited videos very cheap (probably in 4k i guess). Also for most cases it works best to use the KISS <video controls> tag instead of any silly skins that make users think. (1) https://contabo.com/en/object-storage/ https://contabo.com/en/object-storage/

systemvoltage 5y ago
We can start YouTube competitor with your enthusiasm alone and bypass all the T&C violations.
- jandrese 5y ago
  And then get sued to death by media cartels and carted off to jail for hosting child porn. If you are hosting only your own content it's pretty easy. Once you put that upload link on the site it gets a lot more complicated.
  - systemvoltage 5y ago
    Even hosting your own content, it cannot sustain any reasonable virality. Any widespread consumption requires a giant buffer of Big Tech with deep pockets.
phonon 5y ago
AWS Lightsail is a full server with 2 TB of data transfer for $5/m. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
em-bee 5y ago
hetzner servers are at around $50/month but with 1Gbit link you get unlimited traffic: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/traffic/ https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/traffic/ for selfhosting your own videos that should be sufficient.