We host paid video content. We support pay-per-minute, pay-per-view, and a variety of DRM technologies.<p>We offer native "paid video" streaming to Android, iDevices, and all flavors of personal computer. We support the current HTML5 video stack, including WebM. Our datacenters run Wowza Pro, IIS Media Services, Windows Media Server, Darwin Streaming Server, and other less well known services. We don't make customers share a slice of "a server", we're providing hierarchical video caching and distribution across an International footprint for even our $19.95/month customers.<p>We are a CDN -- or a VDN, actually:<p><a href="http://www.advection.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.advection.net/</a><p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/service_provider/hosting/premier.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/servic...</a><p>We like helping startups, so do Edgecast and BitGravity. If you don't need quite as much flexibility, Limelight's got great video infrastructure, while Akamai's the largest scale if you've got the budget.<p><a href="http://www.edgecast.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.edgecast.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.bitgravity.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitgravity.com/</a> (home page is Flash)<p><a href="http://www.limelightnetworks.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.limelightnetworks.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/products/streaming.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/products/streaming.htm...</a>
I always recommend Brightcove (<a href="http://www.brightcove.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.brightcove.com</a>). It's relatively cheap and has an amazing feature set. Everything is customizable and accessible via an API and even works in sans-Flash environments like the iPhone.
If you are hosting paid video content then you probably don't have so many people accessing your content simultaneously, so hosting it yourself is not that difficult? I rented two servers at hetzner.de a few years ago.<p>49 Euros per month, 5 GB of streaming included, afterwards 6,90 per TB. As a streaming server Wowza is offering great software and service, the license was less than a 1000 $. With this setup you can get away for less than a hundred Euros per month and stream 10 terrabytes from two machines and can add easily more machines, when necessary, or use AWS as a fallbacksystem for trafficspikes. Beats pure AWS-Hosting by a wide, wide margin, at least it did for us...
Might I ask who you are and why you are asking? I get enough phone calls from CDN sales people that I don't want to give them more ammo or a bigger target lol
At TekPub we use Amazon's CloudFront, it includes streaming (using Adobe's streaming server) and also allows for authenticated content. We do about 1-3 TB a month through it with basically no issues and pay less than $500/month even at the high end of that range.
After having the same question and failing to find a good service i developed www.videolla.com for exactly this. It still not launched but feel free to get on our waiting list - i will be sending free invites soon.