> Anyone knows a creator-friendly video platform?<p>Let's rephrase that, if you have easy access to hosting and [sufficient] bandwidth, can anyone recommend creator-friendly tooling such that you can just host <i>your</i> content <i>yourself</i>?<p>I'm <i>so done</i> with relying on third parties to do a poor job hosting stuff I created :(
Digitalocean spaces is $5 for 250 GB while Contabo offers the same for $2.49 / mo. I'm sure there are others too. I think DO also offers a free CDN with edge caching.<p>If not, just put it behind a cloudflare or amazon cloudfront proxy and you can stream unlimited videos very cheap (probably in 4k i guess). Also for most cases it works best to use the KISS <video controls> tag instead of any silly skins that make users think.<p>(1) <a href="https://contabo.com/en/object-storage/" rel="nofollow">https://contabo.com/en/object-storage/</a>
Surprised nobody mentioned Mux yet, who are really great at providing a video platform for all sorts of apps and businesses: <a href="https://mux.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mux.com/</a>
The idea here is that there are certainly costs of storage and streaming. And there are certainly SOME customers that probably aren't optimal to serve.<p>The question is whether one can help those customers grow, and if not, avoid the bait/switch/shock paradigm of Vimeo.<p>How many domain-specific creators would benefit from a better model that could scale with them?
This is a story as old as the internet.<p>The unlimited 4K bandwidth is not... unlimited.<p>I get the AWS is terrible, charges too much etc. But after being burnt, repeatedly, by unlimited offerings elsewhere, at some point it's just worth paying their storage price or whatever and just know they will be very unlikely to bait and switch you on pricing.<p>Yes, I'm looking at your unlimited backup storage data plans deals, your "lifetime" offers, your unmetered / unlimited (but wildly oversubscribed and/or we'll give you a call if you actually spin up 20 instances and max transfer on each).
It seems a little bad-faith of the article to relegate to a footnote at the bottom their admission that the practice they're complaining about was changed three days before their article was written.
How many of the problems plaguing the modern web could be solved by universal computer literacy -- teaching folks, along with typing and Word/Powerpoint/Excel -- how to host a static website that holds text/photos/video.
"With this in mind, a few months ago, our company, AE assembled a subscription video platform for health and fitness"<p>Did I miss something or does the blog not link to the new platform?