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Please bear with me for the next 2 weeks....I will remove this video after that.

Brian Kelly · Youtube · 39 HN points · 0 HN comments
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Disclaimer: I am NOT making this video as a means to provide a bad review for any companies mentioned in the video. I am simply making this video as an alert to my audience as to why there may be a temporary outage on my guitar lesson website. I was put into a very difficult and unexpected position, and I am letting my audience know exactly what happened, what I am doing about it and how long it is expected to take. I am also making this video in the hopes that any paying members of my guitar lesson site will understand that this is only temporary, and the site will be back up and running ASAP!!!

I WILL REMOVE THIS VIDEO AS SOON AS I AM FINISHED DOING THESE REQUIRED ACTIONS. I AM ONLY MAKING THIS VIDEO FOR MY OWN PROTECTION.

Thank you!!

PS - I did not enable ads on this video. I think the song at the end of the video is copyrighted, and they put ads on the vid. It is not my intention to try and earn any ad revenue from this video!!

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Sep 16, 2021 · 39 points, 12 comments · submitted by pjbk
twirlock
Great market competition going on across the online video manifold.
teruakohatu
I watched the video linked. This person claims:

* He has 4,000 videos on his guitar website behind a paywall, paying $400/yr (Business Plan)

* His plan offers 5TB of storage, he uses 1.3 TB (from memory).

* Vimeo does not give users access to bandwidth stats.

* He was told he has exceeded some unpublished threshold for 13 months and his account will be shutdown if it exceeds it again.

* He was offered a contract and given 7 days to sign it for $5000/yr and his account would not be shutdown during this period.

On the pricing page Vimeo claims unlimited bandwidth for the $50/month Business plan:

"Unlimited bandwidth (subject to fair use)" and when you mouseover it, a popup says "Users in the top 1% of monthly bandwidth usage (99% of Vimeo users never reach this threshold), may be charged for excessive usage".

So it seems 1% of users are forced into custom contracts that exceed the highest published tier of pricing. I would have expected some additional chargers for exceeding some threshold, not increasing the monthly cost by 13x.

France_is_bacon
>On the pricing page Vimeo claims unlimited bandwidth for the $50/month Business plan:

I hate, hate, hate it when companies claim this, including mobile phone companies. Unlimited means unlimited. The who "Subject to fair use" is just a bullshit way of trying to say that the usage is actually NOT unlimited.

It's like getting a job at a company and they say that they will pay you $500,000 per year. But then they say that the compensation is subject to fair use, and then they start paying you $40,000 per year.

Proven
But you surely understand that real "unlimited" plan would have to charge you for the amount of traffic equal to maximum phone download speed times 30 times 86400 and that would make "unlimited" $199/mo and out of reach for 99% of customers?

The right and fair way is to bill everyone for how much they use, which is an eternal source of complaints from HN's net neutrality socialists.

throwawaysea
That just sounds like a shakedown of the most successful customers. Why not move to an alternate platform like Rumble (https://rumble.com/register.php)? Is there some kind of lock-in aspect I am missing?
joshuamorton
Rumble appears to cost $500/mo ($6K/yr) for a similar 5TB of storage and 20TB of bandwidth package.
fb03
We are moving all our services OFF vimeo for this exact same reason.

The part you mentioned about stats and info being opaque and then out of nowhere you are blocked out of your account resonates with my experience as well.

France_is_bacon
Where are you going to? I was going to use Vimeo starting soon, but now, I don't think so.

So what other places exist to post videos?

Digital Ocean? https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/streaming/

fb03
- Custom js player ("soft" hls with videos split as chunks which enables dynamic bandwidth/resolution change)

- videos encoded as these chunks in any cdn you find a good deal. I am using Bunny CDN and it's working quite well (but don't use their ftp 'home' storage, host on S3 and serve it from there since their ftp has abysmal upload speeds -- but if it serves you try it tho, their local storage for content is as cheap as 0,01USD/gb in the Falkestein zone)

gazby
We also had some issues with Bunny's FTP origin, but that was around availability for serving to the CDN tier.

We didn't want to split the origin and CDN, so we switched to Google storage. Vastly more expensive though.

8K832d7tNmiQ
If you have a huge traffic with high bandwith, maybe consider using CDN or some S3 service like B2 instead of hosting over video platform.
fragmede
But then you have to code up a video platform. Which isn't too bad given the <video> tag, but that becomes yet another thing to manage. Vimeo (and YouTube, if it were amenable to this use case) is a finished product for end users to interact with.
celsoazevedo
Cloudflare Stream could be a good solution for some.
nathanyz
We have actually been seeing this happen to a lot of people who are now moving over to us. https://swarmify.com

We provide automatic import from Vimeo and conversion of the embeds as well with just a javascript snippet. And our pricing ends up being about 10-50% of the cost of what Vimeo is trying to push.

One of those time where having the right features at the right time has made it easy for people to get out of this Vimeo battle against their top customers.

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