Finding a good video host for educational content (just starting out)
Important
- Reliability ()
- fast to start
- avoid buffering
- fast to upload / encode
- good bitrates
- not too agressive compression (quality doesn't suffer)
- analytics? watch rate? Where did people drop off?
Bonus
- paid tier / sub management
Considerations
- big enough / proven enough / trust enough that you won't disappear tomorrow or are a scam
- is this an add-on product that isn't getting love becaues it's one of 30 products and nor your core business? (Cloudlfare stream)
- how clear is the messaging and marketing? Info easy to get to?
- how responsive is support?
- pricing & bandwidth limits?
Basics of how streaming video differs from a download
- AWS Amplify VOD (video on demand)
- Azure VOD
- DO streaming
- Cloudflare Stream - NO
- Audio quality was garbled (guessing too aggressive on the compression)
- Impossible to even find how to contact support for Stream. Every support flow sent me to "domains". https://twitter.com/jamischarles/status/1503584822626713600 Pricing page was CONFUSING
Mux (too pricey?)
Disqualified early
- Vimeo always felt slow to me
- AWS VOD (setup is too complex)
- Wistia (too pricey)