Amazon s3 or another option?

Amazon 3 is not very user friendly.

Let me ask you: are you making your course available online (as in 'streaming'?) or are you just making it available for download?

If you're just looking for a safe place to host your course, and it's just for download, then Amazon 3 is overkill.

Take a look a eJunkie.com

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taylorwinfield4 14 years ago

If your course is going to be available for streaming there is quite a god option that means you do not get billed per amount of data transferred.

I use Vimeo plus, you can check it out using Google (im not affiliated or anything) however they have a feature where you can only stream your videos on one specific site, for example one domain, and it shows an error message if anyone trys to put it on other sites. You can fully customise the player so it only shows a play button etc.

However I always use Amazon s3 for things such as PDF's so if its video streaming content then check that vimeo out, but anything else I think Amazon s3 is the way to go!

Hope this helps!
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Flareman

14 years ago

Hi I'm a little confused by Amazon S3's pricing as well. So what exactly will be charged and what won't?

I found this link: Amazon Simple Storage Service FAQs

But it doesn't say anything about streaming videos. So for example, I upload a 100MB file to S3 to host, I will be charged on the amount of data that I upload to the S3 server in addition to the monthly storage charge correct?

So if I stream that video on my website, is it free or does that constitute as data out and I have to pay for every bit of data that is streamed?

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Bildeberg

14 years ago

As far as pricing, it's all based on usage, so really if you want an easy estimate... just upload what you're thinking of, download it a few times and see what it costs you. It'll only be a few cents, but you can multiply that out by the number of downloads you're expecting.

As to actually managing the files. There's a good, free extension for FireFox that makes it super simple. I think it was called S3Fox from memory... Ah, just found the (non-commercial/affiliate) link. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir.../3247/?src=api

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Flareman

14 years ago

Thanks Bildeberg. But what about video streaming? After I've uploaded my videos to S3 and embed the video on my site for streaming, is the streaming data considered as chargeable by Amazon?

Originally Posted by Bildeberg

As far as pricing, it's all based on usage, so really if you want an easy estimate... just upload what you're thinking of, download it a few times and see what it costs you. It'll only be a few cents, but you can multiply that out by the number of downloads you're expecting.

As to actually managing the files. There's a good, free extension for FireFox that makes it super simple. I think it was called S3Fox from memory... Ah, just found the (non-commercial/affiliate) link. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir.../3247/?src=api

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moneymarker

14 years ago

if you decide to go with amazon s3, there is a plugin you can download for free (only works for Firefox browser) that will make your task of uploading your video files less confusing... it's called s3 amazon plugin

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

The program, Amazon S3 Flow Shield makes uploading and organizing a whole lot easier and S3 is dirt cheap to host videos. I agree, it's complex, but once I got Flow Shield, it got a lot easier.

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Alexander Sebastian

14 years ago

/What do you guys think about easy video player?
It looks very easy to use? im not sure if im falling for hype, but it looks great from the videos( it uses amazon s3)

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BizWebMan

14 years ago

Originally Posted by alexio

/What do you guys think about easy video player?
It looks very easy to use? im not sure if im falling for hype, but it looks great from the videos( it uses amazon s3)

Hi Alexio

I purchased Easy Video Player when it first came out earlier this year and it has made the whole process of integrating video with Amazon S3 an absolute snip.
The whole package is well thought out and the creator Josh Bartlett and his team give very good support.

He does tend to bombard you with affiliate and EVP upgrade emails, but if you can survive that the EVP products are well worth a look.

Grahame

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mikebrooks 14 years ago

I use the Firefox add on that someone mentioned above. It makes the S3 process real easy.

You just drag what you want over to your bucket. Then you right click and select 'edit the acl' and make sure you click the X under 'Read' for users to make it a green check mark.

then you right click it and copy the url to clipboard.

that's it.
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Alexander Sebastian

14 years ago

Originally Posted by gonzo

Hi Alexio

I purchased Easy Video Player when it first came out earlier this year and it has made the whole process of integrating video with Amazon S3 an absolute snip.
The whole package is well thought out and the creator Josh Bartlett and his team give very good support.

He does tend to bombard you with affiliate and EVP upgrade emails, but if you can survive that the EVP products are well worth a look.

Grahame

Cheers man, im going to give it a go! waiting on evp 2 i think!

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HappyGirl

14 years ago

I know someone that used S3 for major video events, and are streamed to tens of thousands... and it cost him something like $20. A pretty good deal. Another friend tried to host himself, and got kicked off one host, and on the second one lost out on TENS OF THOUSANDS of leads because the site crashed with the traffic he got. Definitely finding off site hosting, be it S3 or Vimeo is a must!

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Flareman

14 years ago

So does this mean streaming videos is still chargeable by Amazon? Does anyone know?

Originally Posted by HappyGirl

I know someone that used S3 for major video
events, and are streamed to tens of thousands... and it cost him something like $20. A pretty good deal. Another friend tried to host himself, and got kicked off one host, and on the second one lost out on TENS OF THOUSANDS of leads because the site crashed with the traffic he got. Definitely finding off site hosting, be it S3 or Vimeo is a must!

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Flareman

14 years ago

So anyone knows? Is the streaming data of your videos hosted on Amazon S3 chargeable?

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Andy Fletcher 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Flareman

So anyone knows? Is the streaming data of your videos hosted on Amazon S3 chargeable?

Yes. Amazon charge you for both storage and then download bandwidth used (which includes "streaming" video).
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- Flareman 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher
  
  Yes. Amazon charge you for both storage and then download bandwidth used (which includes "streaming" video).
  
  Thanks Andy. So if thousands of people view your video, wouldn't that chalk up a huge bill at the end of the month?
  
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  Originally Posted by Flareman
  
  Thanks Andy. So if thousands of people view your video, wouldn't that chalk up a huge bill at the end of the month?
  
  Yes. It's known in the trade as "a nice problem to have".
  
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tribros

14 years ago

You might want to try Mediafire Pro:
Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire

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fullmatrix 14 years ago

Originally Posted by tribros

You might want to try Mediafire Pro:
Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire

Tribros, this is interesting. Have you try this and have any experience with them? If I host my files there with mediapro, does my customer have to go through their regular download page with the countdown or they can directly download the files?
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jbsmith

14 years ago

Everyone sais Amazon S3 is complex, I have found it very simple - using the Firefix S3 organizer I have found uploading, organizing and linking to files in "buckets" (their language for folders) quite easy. One thing I always forget is to set Access Controls so my customres can view the videos - but that is a 5-minute fix.

Jeff

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