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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i think that such video upload services that charge less would have to probably delete videos pretty fast to contain costs

if you are at the ground floor just use a web2 "free" service

streaming large amounts of data at thousands of users is very expensive, it's not something a team of even 5 or 10 people are going to throw out in under 5 years of spin-up
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Fern | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 We would be happy to host our own videos. Is that possible from our basic shopify website blog?
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 no, but you can do that pretty cheap from youtube, that's fine i think?
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Fern | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 But won’t the youtube video be a link instead of playing in client?
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 most clients already turn them into previews, even spotify, which annoys me because spotify requires DRM
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 only video hosting companies with infinity money to spend on storage and bandwidth can afford to do this "free" stuff and the ones that do freemium tend to be people who have got ample experience in watching the inputs and outputs of such businesses and so they know how to keep the books balanced without having infinity VC money

that infinity VC money is coming out of your taxes and costing you in inflation, because it's either government grants or banks issuing humongous risky loans

so, please, have some consciousness of what you are asking for, from an embryonic, crowdsourced social network, that is barely even working as a text message system let alone the one or three media hosting enterprises that exist