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Seeking Advice for Website Challenges - Need a Plan for My Video Content Site
Seeking Advice for Website Challenges - Need a Plan for My Video Content Site
I have a website that offers video content, consisting of 100,000 videos available for download and streaming. We receive 30,000 monthly visitors, consuming 500 terabytes of bandwidth. The dedicated data space for my videos is 20 terabytes. I have been using free upload sites to showcase my content, but the content often gets deleted, and ads from these sites are displayed frequently.
I am seeking guidance on how to create a high-quality, cost-effective plan. My profits are low, and I want to enhance the competitiveness of my website in Google search results. I have some plans, but I'm unsure if they're viable.
Firstly, should I rely on Google Drive, a paid service? I'm concerned about sudden surges in traffic causing Google to suspend or delete my files.
Secondly, considering Object Storage S3 ( Contabo) with open bandwidth, priced at $12 per terabyte. However, with 20 terabytes, it totals $240, which is high considering my $150 monthly profit.
Thirdly, should I invest in Dedicated Servers? I am skeptical about their success due to several reasons. If I purchase a server from Hetzner for $60, will it handle the bandwidth and hard drive well? Should I buy two servers? I am uncertain about the answer.
Should I rely on paid upload sites for streaming and downloading? I don't know which site is suitable.
please excuse my approach. I am new to website management, offering good video content and service, but I lack knowledge about cost-effective strategies. Please don't hesitate to share your advice; I greatly appreciate it. What is the best approach for video content? Please don't hold back your suggestions.
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then you should NOT be looking to start stream content yourself as this is expensive as fuck
my advice is hire a good developer and make a upload system with backup
BACKUP = dedicated server at hetzner
Script = Checks your links and if one gets deleted (this can be done with xvideosharing api) it gets reuploaded to free videohosting
You can't host your videos on this budget.
Yes, you can find a server with enough disk capacity but...
Let's even assume that you can get a dedicated 1GBps port for this price.
You'll be able to serve 333TB per month (theory).
And I imagine you have traffic peaks.
So you probably need a dedicated 3GBps or maybe 10GBps port
In short, you'll never be able to do that on this budget.
Can we agree that we're talking about videos you own the rights to, of course?
Owns the rights to, yet unable to make a 150$ per month!
It seems there are a lot of these kinda ominous video sites out there. To me I think object storage is a good solution with kubernetes it will be robust. Use MinIO or Ceph + Rook.
I studied the ffmpeg api for awhile and I'll tell you it'll be rough to serve transcoded video because you'll need to quadruple the copies of the original to have low bitrate at various res.
We have many many many video and other bandwidth intensive sites using our 10g/20g/40g unmetered dedicated servers. However, they start at $550/mo, on special.
https://1gservers.com/10g-unmetered-dedicated-servers.html
This is definitely outside your specified budget though. However, if/when you want to explore the dedicated server route, keep us in mind. We can build some very flexible server options even if you don’t need 10g unmetered.
Install the push-ups delivery software:
https://github.com/yoursunny/NDNts-video
When multiple viewers are watching the same video, your origin server sends the content once, and then the global NDN network can distribute the content to all your viewers for free.
You still need a dedicated server for storing so many files, but you can greatly save bandwidth costs.
Consider how you will handle dmca notice since videos seems to be copyright subject. It wi be hard to find such provider with dmca ignoring
Google Drive: Not recommended for large-scale video hosting due to potential suspensions.
Object Storage S3 (Contabo): Scalable but can become costly. Watch out for hidden costs.
Dedicated Servers: Viable, but ensure it meets bandwidth needs. Consider technical management.
Paid Upload Sites: Not fully in your control; potential for content deletion.
Recommendations:
Hybrid Solution: Use dedicated server for popular content and object storage for the rest. Hetzner | Contabo's S3 solution
Use a CDN: Improve user experience and reduce server load. Cloudflare
Optimize Videos: Save on storage and bandwidth. HandBrake
With 500TB of video content bandwidth per a month, Cloudflare isn't viable unless you're on an enterprise plan. Video content delivery goes against Cloudflare's terms of service when it makes up the majority of bandwidth usage - so I'd anticipate an account suspension, especially if you try to pull that manoeuvre on their free plan.
Change your business model. You're making half a cent profit per visitor, who in turn uses 16GB of bandwidth which suggests many hours of videos per visitor.
How much time and effort are you putting into this site? For $150 a month profit? $5 per day? That's not even the minimum wage for one hour in most countries!
But in any case, I think we can all guess the nature of the videos. If you have 20TB of them and so many visitors but so little profit, it's a massive sign that you don't in fact own the rights to them. If you are infringing other people's copyrights, are you really willing to risk being taken to court in addition to the time and effort you put in for $150 profit per month? It seems like the costs in just getting a lawyer to reply to a court summons would bankrupt your enterprise.
There is a speed limit on Contabo object storage, you definitely couldn't use it to push loads of video content, it's rather slow.
Read their technical description before using in production: https://docs.contabo.com/docs/products/Object-Storage/technical-description
Cloudflare R2 can be used to host video content and advertises no egress charges.
20,000GB x $0.015 = $300 for only storage and costs from Class B operations for OP are unknown to me