[ale] Anyone know of a good video hosting company?

[Brian Whigham]

2009/1/29 Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>

>   We're looking into the idea of having an outside company host and play
> videos for us to save our bandwidth here.
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> The idea is we'd put links on our site for videos that would actually go to
> the external hosting company to play the videos.
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> Ideally we'd like to deal with a company with facilities in Atlanta.
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Can anyone comment on the value / reliability / performance of Amazon's
cloudfront or S3?  I know cloudfront can be used for this purpose.  I'm not
sure if S3 alone has the "distribution" capability.  I assume it does.

howto:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/awsVideos/CloudFront/AmazonCloudFront.html

main page:
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

I've not tried either.  Pay as you go hosting kinda scares me.  I guess it's
a fear of what success (or excessive crawling/hyperlinking) could do to my
pocketbook.

I don't think they have a datacenter in Atlanta.

Thanks
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