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Need help from product creators!!

by Dyer402
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Hey everyone,

I just had some questions since I'm taking my first swing at product creating.

I'm currently putting together a video product and I'm looking for some cheap, if not free ways of hosting my own videos into my members area.

I was going to try and use Wistia and they have an awesome platform, but their lowest plan costs 20 bucks a month for 10 videos at 20 GB of bandwidth.

I am already incurring a lot of expenses from aweber, hosting, membership software charges, traffic, product creation, and it's really starting to add up so I was wondering if anyone could help me as far as minimizing my investments here.

Does anyone know of some cheap or free ways I could host my own videos or is a video hosting company the best route to go?


Cory D
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Richardson
    Amazon S3 has no set monthly fees, its literally Pay as you use and a lot of marketers swear by it for there Video hosting. Relatively inexpensive so i've heard, too.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnZ
    Yeah, I don't think you can go wrong with S3. Unless you're getting crazy amounts of traffic to your videos and have a lot of them, it's going to be super cheap. And if you are, then you are probably pulling in enough money to compensate so it shouldn't be a problem.

    And here's what they state on their pricing page: "As part of the AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests, and 15GB of data transfer out each month for one year."

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    • Profile picture of the author hsbinmarket
      Originally Posted by JohnZ View Post

      Yeah, I don't think you can go wrong with S3. Unless you're getting crazy amounts of traffic to your videos and have a lot of them, it's going to be super cheap. And if you are, then you are probably pulling in enough money to compensate so it shouldn't be a problem.

      And here's what they state on their pricing page: "As part of the AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests, and 15GB of data transfer out each month for one year."

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  • Profile picture of the author Dyer402
    Well here's the thing, these videos will only be embedded in a members area of a product I'm selling. I'm sure most of you are familiar with optimize press membership platform.

    So it wont be on a blog or open source website for anyone to see so I think I should be okay. I was going to try Wistia. They have a really awesome interface and features which I may revisit in the future, but for now I have enough expenses. Pay as you go sounds way better at this point. I'd rather pay only for the bandwidth that I do use.

    Thanks a ton guys. I'll check out Amazon S3!


    Cory D
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