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Google Video VS. Amazon S3? (What's Better For My Paid Membership Videos?)

by socratous139
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Hello,

I am building a secured member-area where I'll be offering lessons through Videos and I am looking for an affordable and safe service where I'll be hosting my videos.

I've checked Google Videos and I see they offer free service to host your videos and I can simply click the "unlisted" button not to share my videos to public (just to my members in my web site)

I also created an account with Amazon S3, but I don't know what's better. Google Videos or Amazon S3 for my secured member area?

Google Videos is Free - is it safe to just go with them or should I go with Amazon S3?

Thanks

J
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  • Profile picture of the author Brian Edmondson
    In my experience the video quality from Amazon S3 is much better. Amazon just lowered their prices for S3 services, which makes it almost dirt cheap...

    I'd go S3.

    Hope that helps.

    Brian
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  • Profile picture of the author Stanley Tang
    Amazon S3

    The quality of Google video just isn't good enough...
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_Willow
    Amazon is top noch and the price is crazy (ver low).
    I'm very happy with their service

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author TeamGlobal
      I saw the recommendations for Amazon S3 in another thread that I had started.

      I signed up for it based upon those recommendations.

      For those of you who use S3 what simple method do you recommend for uploading and managing files?

      Thanks.

      All The Best,


      Tony
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      • Profile picture of the author socratous139
        Download the Firefox S3 plugin - It's AWESOME!
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        • Profile picture of the author TeamGlobal
          Thanks for that info, J.

          I'll download that today.


          All The Best,


          Tony
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_Willow
    Tony, just keep in mind that the S3 plugin works with Firefox 3 only...
    I tried to set it up for hours before found out that I need to upgrade

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author TeamGlobal
      Thanks for that tip, Chris.

      All The Best,


      Tony
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      • Profile picture of the author Jason Fladlien
        An alternative is to host them yourself. I use powweb.com

        For $7 a month, you get UNLIMITED bandwith and UNLIMITED disk space.

        And their customer service is top notch. The only problem is if you get too much video on one site, download is slow. Solution: open up a second $7 a month account.

        I'm hosting about 4 gigs worth of video content on one site, and I imagine bandwidth is probably a gig a day.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sirius Lin
    Personally, I'd recommend that you go for a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Using Servint's Essential VPS as a pricing example:

    Details of ServInt VPS Servers
    Storage = 15Gb
    Bandwidth = 500Gb/month

    Total costs = $49/month


    Compared with Amazon S3 for the same specs:
    Storage = 15Gb = $2.25
    Bandwidth = 500Gb/month = $85

    Total costs = $87.25/month


    There are a lot of VPS providers out there, and I'll be happy to make recommendations if you need them

    ~ Sirius
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  • Profile picture of the author mario2001
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    Definitely go with S3. If you need a free player that will play your videos from S3 on your website try this one: Flowplayer

    -Mario
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    • Profile picture of the author David_Thompson
      S3 is the best option you want to keep your videos away
      from your site because if you have a lot of people downloading
      or watching it a good bit of visitors to your site that will cause
      a bottleneck effect where everthing will be slow and you are
      going to loose customers or leads.

      I use S3 for streaming training videos paid and free contents
      just check the first link in my sigfile to see how i use S3 for
      video streaming.

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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Fletcher
    There's a great thread in the War Room with loads of info about how to host videos on Amazon S3. Worth the price of joining alone.
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