Video Presentation-Your Website or mine
August 8, 2010 | Data Storage
It’s been a tough year for optical storage with it’s markets rapidly shrinking. Cloud storage has made everything but the most specialized archiving still clinging to CD-R and DVD recordable flee to the cloud or self managed hard drive RAID storage. Not only that flash based memory combined with MP3 creates a compact storage model that scales well. Video actually seems better to distribute via Internet in the long run. Current American Internet services are not the fastest but with compression and the drive towards smaller viewing screens it may not really matter.
The question centers around hosting your own video presentations or on a platform like You Tube or Vimeo. Probably the biggest argument for the video sites is their social media tools and a wide range of transient visitors that allow for exposure to new information. With your own Internet hosting service you have more control over presentation but driving traffic to the site becomes the overwhelming goal. If you already have a good source of traffic than hosting your own video makes sense. If you are not well known than using the video sites is a plus. Even if you have your own site seeding videos on outside sites is a great strategy.
The decision to host one’s own videos brings up questions to your hosting company. You want to make sure you have enough bandwidth to stream the video to your visitors. Choppy, intermittent service causes interest to be lost at a very fast rate. If you have enough traffic then a dedicated server is a good idea for your account.
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