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> Not sure what controlling the user's entire tech stack even means then. Hardware and software they are running as well as bandwidth available to them both at

by jpc0 3y ago

> Not sure what controlling the user's entire tech stack even means then. Hardware and software they are running as well as bandwidth available to them both at home offices as well as on site offices. So yes just directly serving whatever bitrate video would be equivalent to YouTube 1080p internally as the only option is just fine since even if it's less bandwidth I don't think any of my users would want to be watching 360p video. And at the same time I don't need to allocate too much bandwidth for on my own server that since I can easily offload that to a CDN. If I need to serve a large repository of videos I wouldn't self host, I would pay a SaaS since storage costs alone would be absurd, having to then also store not only the high bitrate masters but also every intermediate format...

jpc0 3y ago
> > Also it's free to stick the video on YouTube as an unisted video and embed the player... Yeah, right. What can go wrong uh... Naturally a lot, but for a company that won't pay the actually low rates a SaaS provider charges for this, this would work just fine... Also why I mentioned that there are SaaS providers that do offer that which is a little more reliable. I believe one if them is the new up and coming one called Microsoft that most companies already have some sort of business agreement with.
- johnchristopher 3y ago
  Well, MS, Amazon and Youtube/Google are big no-no for that company at the moment (and for the foreseeable future). Thing is it's not about any SaaS provider rates, it's about ethical concerns but then we hit bandwidth cost problems. We'll see how it turns out.
  - jpc0 3y ago
    I'm down for idealogical reason, in that case fo ahead. It's fun doing it yourself, it's just not good business in general. Honestly if any business is already paying for M365 of G Workspaces there is absolutely no reason to deploy your own video infra, you likely are already paying for video infra.
johnchristopher 3y ago
> If I need to serve a large repository of videos I wouldn't self host, I would pay a SaaS since storage costs alone would be absurd, having to then also store not only the high bitrate masters but also every intermediate format... I can hear that. Maybe in a year we will have to face the facts that we reached capacity and underestimated our needs if it's too much successful. For now, we want/need/must self-host on premise so at some point maybe we will have to say "we can't do it, either we offload or we shut down the service".

by jpc0 3y ago

jpc0 3y ago

> > Also it's free to stick the video on YouTube as an unisted video and embed the player... Yeah, right. What can go wrong uh... Naturally a lot, but for a company that won't pay the actually low rates a SaaS provider charges for this, this would work just fine... Also why I mentioned that there are SaaS providers that do offer that which is a little more reliable. I believe one if them is the new up and coming one called Microsoft that most companies already have some sort of business agreement with.

johnchristopher 3y ago
Well, MS, Amazon and Youtube/Google are big no-no for that company at the moment (and for the foreseeable future). Thing is it's not about any SaaS provider rates, it's about ethical concerns but then we hit bandwidth cost problems. We'll see how it turns out.
- jpc0 3y ago
  I'm down for idealogical reason, in that case fo ahead. It's fun doing it yourself, it's just not good business in general. Honestly if any business is already paying for M365 of G Workspaces there is absolutely no reason to deploy your own video infra, you likely are already paying for video infra.

johnchristopher 3y ago

> If I need to serve a large repository of videos I wouldn't self host, I would pay a SaaS since storage costs alone would be absurd, having to then also store not only the high bitrate masters but also every intermediate format... I can hear that. Maybe in a year we will have to face the facts that we reached capacity and underestimated our needs if it's too much successful. For now, we want/need/must self-host on premise so at some point maybe we will have to say "we can't do it, either we offload or we shut down the service".