Thanks Allen, Todd & Pat! I should have specified that this content has a private viewing audience and therefore doesn't require the usual viral/SEO considerations of a public website. Also, the traffic is going to be slight at best, so locally hosted files seemed adequate. There's no real need for cloud hosting, though ironically the site is sitting at Rackspace... Anyway, I'm going to check out the Viper plugin as an interface and then try out Jonathon's specs.
Thanks for all the suggestions! *Art Thompson, Jr.* Logical Things, Inc. 917-609-1158 [m] | 512-777-1158 [w] www.LogicalThings.com <http://www.logicalthings.com/> Find us on Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn as "LogicalThings" We design, build and deploy branded Microsites, Landing Pages, Blogs, Eblasts and Whatever Comes Next. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Pat Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hosting videos on high-value sites like YouTube is a good way to get a > strong link back to you. > > However, embedding a video into your site that's hosted elsewhere can be a > performance hit since you're making a request to another domain, so you need > to consider a few things & not get them mixed up: > > Host your videos on a site like YouTube with your site URL in one of the > frames. It's advertising 101. People see it, they see your URL. > > Be careful of embedding videos hosted off-site because that's an additional > http request that users' browsers have to make & it can be a performance hit > that brings down your page speed rankings. > > If you're a serious video user & your traffic demands it, look at a content > delivery network to take the load off your server(s). > > Always look at your site's load time, regardless of your solution. > > Like there being no spoon, there is no 100% right answer. Your Mileage May > Vary. > > Cheers! > > Pat > -- > Pat Ramsey > Web Design and Accessibility Specialist > [email protected] > @pat_ramsey > > Code that works,… beautifully > http://slash25.com > > On Aug 24, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Todd O'Neill wrote: > > If you can, scare them away from serving off their own server. You need a > server optimized for video for best playback. and if their customers are > outside of Texas they will need to serve their video through a CDN (content > delivery network.) Hosting video is not web hosting. They are different and > let no one tell you differently. For "private" video serving lok into > AudioVideoWeb.com. Competitve prices for archival (on demand) and > streaming video. (They helped me out of a huge jam for an international > Latino conference and I will be forever in their debt.) There are other > companies out there too. They have the optimized servers and CDNs just like > YouTube, etc. but you don't get all the good search juice if you use them. > > > -- > Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Refresh Austin" group. > > [ Posting ] > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy > We do not accept job posts from recruiters. > > [ Unsubscribe ] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<refresh-austin%[email protected]> > > [ More Info ] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
