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Where can I host my video?

by Eric Land
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Hey Everyone,

I have come across a small problem as was hoping that some of you could help me out.

So I am making a membership website and everyday I have video's explaining what to do i tried hosting the video's on youtube but some of them are over 10 minuets so they don't work.

Where do you suggest i host them?

Also I am trying not to host them on my own hosting account cause they take like 2 hours to upload each.

Thanks,

Eric
#host #video
  • Profile picture of the author arunsakthi143
    "Upload.video.google.com"

    digital video files of any length and size. Simply sign up for an account and upload your videos using our Video Uploader (please be sure you own the rights to the works you upload), and, pending our approval process and the launch of this new service, we'll include your video in Google Video, where users will be able to search, preview, purchase and play it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Maria Gudelis
    Ditto on the Google Video...

    also amazon s3 services for hosting solution fo ryour vids..
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Hi Eric

    Have you considered using Amazon S3 to host the videos?

    Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

    It's very inexpensive, you only pay for the space and bandwidth that you use.

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Land
      Originally Posted by arunsakthi143 View Post

      "Upload.video.google.com"

      digital video files of any length and size. Simply sign up for an account and upload your videos using our Video Uploader (please be sure you own the rights to the works you upload), and, pending our approval process and the launch of this new service, we'll include your video in Google Video, where users will be able to search, preview, purchase and play it.
      Is this free?

      Originally Posted by mywebwork View Post

      Hi Eric

      Have you considered using Amazon S3 to host the videos?

      Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

      It's very inexpensive, you only pay for the space and bandwidth that you use.

      Bill
      Hey,

      Have you ever personally used this?
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  • Profile picture of the author Craig Fenton
    Hi Eric:

    Hope the weekend was good. Before you give up on You Tube or any site for that matter because of the length of the video you may have an option. There is software that can either compress the size or use a file format that takes less space. For example the same as in audio the average WAVE file is 10 times an MP3, an MPEG video can be 10x the size of an FLV.

    If a video is fancy with great photos of the universe you will lose quality if you change compression or type of file but if it is you promoting a product it may suffice! You can always test before uploading.

    A search of Google for Video conversion software will tell you about options and price before you buy!

    Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author Loren Woirhaye
      Check out Viddler.com - free and permissive about length
      I think. I've seen longer than 10 minute YouTube videos.
      I don't know if it's a length or file-size issue, or maybe special
      permission to upload bigger ones.

      if you want your videos private you'll need to pay for hosting
      in some way. S3 is spendy. You can self-host with
      an unmetered-bandwidth host for $10 a month or less.
      The cost these days to host video, if you have paying
      customers, is not bad at all.

      But check out Viddler if you want free.
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      • Profile picture of the author Joe's Market
        Amazon S3 is the best way to host video. They will hold all your video in a bucket and then it stream it any where in the world. Also, it is a pay as you go system only on the usage. This keeps cost ver low.

        Best of luck

        Joe
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        • Profile picture of the author Techie Turtle
          FWIW, Google will discontinue video hosting.

          Source:
          Google Help › Video Help › Google Video Overview › General Questions › What's going on with Google Video Uploads?
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    • Profile picture of the author The Copy Nazi
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      Originally Posted by Craig Fenton View Post

      Hi Eric:

      Hope the weekend was good. Before you give up on You Tube or any site for that matter because of the length of the video you may have an option. There is software that can either compress the size or use a file format that takes less space. For example the same as in audio the average WAVE file is 10 times an MP3, an MPEG video can be 10x the size of an FLV.

      If a video is fancy with great photos of the universe you will lose quality if you change compression or type of file but if it is you promoting a product it may suffice! You can always test before uploading.

      A search of Google for Video conversion software will tell you about options and price before you buy!

      Good luck.
      You can compress a video file right down - without a great loss of quality - using DivX or the Open Source Xvid (DivX backwards). I use it all the time for large HD video files. I can compress from 1 Gig to 18 Mb. Here on my blog - DivX Compression For Your YouTubeVideos - DivX - Unique Baby Names/Google Cash Detective review/Free Boat Plans/Porsche girl/Pauline Hanson Naked/

      But this isn't going to help your 10 minute limit on YouTube. So why not chop it into "Part 1" and "Part 2"? People don't like long videos anyway. The attention span wavers.

      BTW YouTube have HD now and a 1Gb limit - they just get better and better. I also use bliptv and Vimeo - beautiful quality for HD but they frown on commercial vids.

      I sometimes upload to Vimeo (using their Vimeo Plus version - $40 a year or something) and mark the video "private" and to watch it you need a password. You get 5Gb a week - 1Gb per file and no time limit. In Beautiful full HD resolution. I label the vids something like "What I did on my holidays" in case Admin come snooping.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    try using viddler.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Logan_5
    YouTube would likely gain you more exposure to people who would otherwise never know about you. Consider breaking the videos in shorter segments. If you have issues with youtube then try metacafe.com
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