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Our business uses Vimeo because we get a discounted rate on acami CDN via their bulk purchasing power. YouTube is free but that comes with a lot of headaches. F
by VladVladikoff 9mo ago
Our business uses Vimeo because we get a discounted rate on acami CDN via their bulk purchasing power. YouTube is free but that comes with a lot of headaches. For example not being able to hide the recommended videos at the end of a video, which annoyed our clients in the past when we did use YouTube. YouTube also needs to be public to be embeddable, which also created issues for us.
However this announcement has me terrified and literally scrambling for a backup plan.
- BizarroLand 9mo agoIf it's a small number of videos, specifically ones that are unlikely to go viral, then a self-hosted or externally paid hosted peertube site might be a good option.
- bobbylarrybobby 9mo agoYoutube also doesn't let you replace an already-uploaded video while maintaining the URL, which is incredibly painful if you need to edit a posted video for whatever reason.
- donohoe 9mo agoSimilar boat. Would appreciate hearing of options you end up considering.
- VladVladikoff 9mo agoWe are probably just going to self host. We already self host several TB of images (proxied by CDNs) we are just going to do the same with our videos. Most of our videos are only watched for a few weeks before they are basically never viewed again. Our plan is currently to use backblaze for the older stuff their b2 storage is pretty affordable. Proxied by another server and a CDN so the popular stuff sits on the CDN and the older stuff is accessible but might take a few moments to bring up. This is acceptable to our business model.