Recommended hosting for video course files?

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2 points by ashamia 4828 days ago

Hi! We have a library of files, 500Mb each containing an hour-long video course.

We would like to serve them online, globally, and expect an average traffic of several hundreds of users per day.

would a CDN be an absolute must? Which services, other than than Amazon CloudFront / S3, are available? Does Google have any CDN offering?

thanks a bunch!

2 comments

Are the files public? Then perhaps just use youtube.

If you need a CDN, CDN77 has worked fine for me at a reasonable price.

I'd start hosting them on a separate domain first, then move that to a CDN if necessary.

thanks, will take a look at CDN77

any idea whether Google Cloud Storage is suitable for such task?

Have you thought of youtube?

we intend the service to be subscription-based, and therefore need to put the files behind a paywall