RE: [videoblogging] Dreamhost vs blip.tv?
Hi Daniel, Am quite happy with Dreamhost, although I hear complaints about down times, which I rarely experience. They're quite cheap and reliable, and offer a lot of disc space and bandwith. Also the software they offer is okay. I have a promotion code for you that will give you 50 USD discount. Check it out. Kind regards, Ruud Elmendorp http://www.videoreporter.nl +254 736 746 312 Original Message Follows From: Daniel Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com To: Videoblogging Yahoo videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Dreamhost vs blip.tv? Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:17:27 -0700 New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should go with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a host such as blip.tv. This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than 100) as I already have lots of content. I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! Thanks. * DF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Dreamhost vs blip.tv?
I would say exactly what Rhett said. Also, Blip provides an opportunity for people looking for videos to stumble across yours, and they highlight shows they like. Plus they're good guys who get involved in the scene and the community their tech support is totally amazing. Oh, and they're free. Rupert Twittervlogging during Videoblogging Week 2007: http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 4 Apr 2007, at 06:38, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: Yes. Making QT my main format caused no end of headaches from people telling me they had trouble with QT, so I decided to go with Flash. Dreamhost also offers their own Flash transcoder, but I felt that Blip.tv offered more in the way of social support, such as serving as the mouthpiece of vloggers when video got scraped against people's CC licenses, that I went with them for my new show. Blip has its ups and downs, but I've been pleased overall. I now host Greentime on Blip and have it crosspost to a Wordpress blog I keep on Dreamhost. It is a pretty good arrangement, and I don't know that I'd go back to doing everything completely off Dreamhost. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime Daniel Foster wrote: New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should go with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a host such as blip.tv. This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than 100) as I already have lots of content. I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! Thanks. * DF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Dreamhost vs blip.tv?
If you want to minimize the time spent on setting up a site to output your video content and have the added benefit of being indexed and findable by other people more easily, then you should at least start with blip.tv. It's really the best first step to take for any serious videoblogger. Serious as in one who wants more control as a publisher than what some other services allow for. blip.tv evolved from the grassroots videoblogging movement so they reflect the needs of the community better than anyone that I have seen. They are great for newbies and prolific users alike. As you evolve your project or start new ones that are dependent on video (or even audio) production and distribution, you may want to explore other ways to enhance your brand and/or general creative control. This can always be done in tandem with a service like blip.tv. But if you discover reasons to host your media on your own web server like dreamhost (a good choice btw) along with your blogs, galleries or CMS... then you have options and free software that is usually easy to install... and generous bandwdith allowances that usually suffice most people. Also, Web Hosts are evolving to provide more services to media makers and will eventually resemble services like blip.tv. Dreamhost is taking small steps towards that I think. Likewise, I bet some video centric hosting services will try to broaden their features by becoming more like traditional web hosts. Sull On 4/4/07, Daniel Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should go with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a host such as blip.tv. This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than 100) as I already have lots of content. I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! Thanks. * DF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Dreamhost vs blip.tv?
New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should go with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a host such as blip.tv. This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than 100) as I already have lots of content. I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! Thanks. * DF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Dreamhost vs blip.tv?
I use dreamhost as my web host and blip as my video host. I've been pretty happy with the arrangement thus far. I don't feel like I'm giving up any control using blip. I have more options than if I tried to implement many of their features on my own. -- Kary Rogers http://goodcommitment.tv On Apr 4, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Daniel Foster wrote: New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should go with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a host such as blip.tv. This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than 100) as I already have lots of content. I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! Thanks. * DF
Re: [videoblogging] Dreamhost vs blip.tv?
Yes. Making QT my main format caused no end of headaches from people telling me they had trouble with QT, so I decided to go with Flash. Dreamhost also offers their own Flash transcoder, but I felt that Blip.tv offered more in the way of social support, such as serving as the mouthpiece of vloggers when video got scraped against people's CC licenses, that I went with them for my new show. Blip has its ups and downs, but I've been pleased overall. I now host Greentime on Blip and have it crosspost to a Wordpress blog I keep on Dreamhost. It is a pretty good arrangement, and I don't know that I'd go back to doing everything completely off Dreamhost. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime Daniel Foster wrote: New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should go with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a host such as blip.tv. This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than 100) as I already have lots of content. I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! Thanks. * DF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
