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TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/27/2009, 6:54 AM
i'd suggest getting your own host. They can be as cheap as ~$80 a year from what I've heard.
farss wrote on 5/27/2009, 7:05 AM
Anything bigger than 1GB is going to take a long time to upload. If it's reasonably well compressed it's also going to be pretty longish. Is that what you'd really want people to be streaming. On top of that watching 1GB's worth of video is going to use up possibly a lot of the viewers bandwidth no matter where it's hosted from.

I know that's not maybe what you wanted to hear but I'm left not so certain about your stratergy.

I say this because I uploaded some stuff to Vimeo for the client to share around. In the end I put in on Youtube for him because the Vimeo HD stuff took too long to stream. Just don't underestimate the client's ability to not want to go along with your best laid plans.

Bob.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/27/2009, 8:09 AM
maybe he wants a place to upload & transfer good copies to clients? I do that.

I use the game server by these guys, so I can't vouch for the hosting, but if the hosting is as good as the server there's almost no issues & all issues are dealt with promptly:
http://www.escapedturkey.com/webhosting/index.html

it's a 200gb/month transfer limit, but they guarantee 200gb/month. No "you downloaded 110gb in 3 days you're cut off", but 200 until they cut you off.
drewU2 wrote on 5/27/2009, 3:11 PM
thanks for all the feedback guys. here is what i gleaned...

1) keep the online versions of the wedding highlights only. who wants to stream over 1gb of wedding video anyways? good point.

2) i think i will use vimeo because i only want to post video, not share files.

3) my clients receive the full-length version on Blu-Ray so this is just a bonus anyways.

thanks again.