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by nothxbro 4828 days ago
Awesome product, but holy shit are you guys expensive for anyone who does volume.

3000 'minutes' uploaded for $200 ? Tell me thats a monthly allowance and not a one time fee? You better be using some fancy CDNs and having 10 different versions of my file in different resolutions for that price.

Maybe let people opt for no transcoding to bring the price down? I would never use you guys at the current price. A few open source scripts and a dedicated server at 100tb.com is 500 times cheaper.

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Let me know how your open source scripts and dedicated server work out. I'd like a great, but insanely cheap solution too.
with amazon and a bit of scripting you can get pretty far while keeping the costs low. For my company for example, I transcoded 35 000 minutes of video in 2 days for about 300 euro. Of course it took me a good week to develop the whole system but in the end it was much so cheaper than other services out there. (Zencoder, Amazon Cloud Transcoding etc.) .