Any Alternatives To Amazon S3 For FLV Video Hosting?

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I want to Use the Amazon s3 service, but unfortunately
they are friggen retarded. (Venting).

I have created 3 accounts because the same thing keeps happening.

I sign up for the S3 Account and it never activates. I've done my research
and it happens to MANY people. Then my account no longer allows me
to login. It's just a pain in the ass. I've contacted their service but
their help is pretty much useless.

Now my question is is there any alternatives that will allow fast
FLV streaming?

Daniel
#main internet marketing discussion forum #alternatives #amazon #flv #hosting #video
  • I'd like to know the answer to this as well. My host doesn't allow flv streaming, and some videos you just don't want on YouTube.
  • Screencast? That's where I host my videos anyhow.
  • Amazon s3 does not speed up your streaming.

    You asked about alternatives to fast streaming...

    There are only a couple things that effect how fast a video loads and plays and those are the bit rate the video was encoded at, the speed of the connection of your visitor, and the buffer time setting on the player you are using.

    If your bit rate of your video is lower than the connection speed of your visitor and your buffer time is set to a second or two your video will play almost instantly.

    And it does not matter one bit where you are hosting it.

    What Amazon provides you is scalability... in other words you can have more connections and infinately available bandwidth...

    Most people are better off going with an economy host like Aplus.net or Powweb.com both of which load balance and collocate.

    But the truth is that just about any old hosting plan that allows as many concurrent connections as you need and gives you enough bandwidth and a big enough pipe to handle your demand will do.

    Even some of the largest corporations and most successful internet marketers have no clue when it comes to video hosting...

    Too many people think that Amazon somehow makes your video streaming faster... it does not. No hosting plan does. All hosting plans can do is make your video more available depending on the demand and the available resources.

    But again there are very few things that effect how fast a video loads and plays and for the majority of publishers doing just a few thousand video views a month the hosting you choose, as long as you choose one that does not limit concurrent connections and provides you enough bandwidth and big enough pipe to meet your demand, will have no effect one way or another.

    You don't need any special type of hosting either... an flv is just a file just like any other file pdf, tex, html etc.

    When you use a standard progressive download "streaming" player which is how most players work these days then all you need is a standard file server.
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    • Thanks for the help.

      I use economy hosting, and maybe Faster wasn't the term I should
      have used.

      But I need storage space that allows lots of views at the same time
      and works just fine.

      I don't want to use economy hosting any longer and Amazon S3
      allows all the storage I need.

      I've signed up for streamcast to see how that goes.

      Daniel
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  • You can try www.blip.tv to see if their speed works for you.

    Once uploaded, you will have access to the .flv file.
    You can also upload an image to be a thumbnail of your choosing.

    Michelle
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  • I have S3 but I am currently testing out Wistia.
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