Thank you for responding. The reason why we're trying to switch to having someone else host these videos is mainly bandwidth costs. Storage is super cheap, streaming that data out to the Internet, not so much apparently. We currently store our videos in S3 and pipe 10ish TBs a month, and this number is growing very rapidly (and very linearly) every month. At $0.09/GB data transfer out cost, this is pretty pricey, and the reason why we're trying to move off of hosting them ourselves. Maybe there's a cheaper offering than hosting on AWS, I'm open to ideas.
Vimeo and YouTube allow you to not pay for bandwidth, which is great, so they seem like the way to go if we're optimizing for that. The API idea for vimeo is pretty interesting, I'll have to investigate. Alternatively there's always task rabbit.. :)
Vimeo and YouTube allow you to not pay for bandwidth, which is great, so they seem like the way to go if we're optimizing for that. The API idea for vimeo is pretty interesting, I'll have to investigate. Alternatively there's always task rabbit.. :)