Inexpensive Video Hosting
August 4th, 2010 by Matt Haff
First let me apologize for not being on schedule and getting this post up on Monday, but at least I’m still meeting my goal with blogging once a week posting.
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been forced to re-evaluate how we host our online video. Due to changes in the billing of our current service provider Ooyala, I’m having to rethink my strategy. They use to bill per hour watched, they have changed to bill per gigabyte delivered. I am by no way upset by this, because all other companies are already billing this way and Ooyala has worked with us to try and keep us at the same pricing. However, just due to the fact that we record HD video even our little 3 minute clips are over 100mb.
Anyways, we are changing our strategy to only hosting our sermons on Ooyala and posting our short clips on Vimeo. The only thing I don’t like about Vimeo is that your username can’t start with a number… so obviously “12Stone” can’t be our username… We can pay only $60/year and get unlimited hosting for our HD video. Vimeo is also a little more socially friendly as people can share it directly, even download the video if we let them. There are ofcourse some limits:
- Upload max 5GB/week
- No Banner Ads
- Priority Uploading
- Unlimited HD Uploading
- Full Player Customization
- Unlimited Groups/Channels/Albums
- Access to Source File Downloads
Farm Rap from 12Stone Church on Vimeo.
Have you looked into using VideoPress (http://videopress.com)? It's an addon for wordpress.com sites, but there's a plugin to work with standalone WordPress sites. (Basically, you signup for a free wp.com site, purchase the addon, install the plugin on your own site, then configure.) It's comparable to the cost of a Vimeo Pro account. Another option would be a site like Viddler which has a 500Mb cap per video, but it's free.
Chris Harrison
August 4th, 2010
Thanks for the info Chris, is there a reason that Videopress would be better than Vimeo?
cwsites
August 5th, 2010