Reply To: Embedded backstager videos loading slow

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Storage, bandwidth, transcoding, cdn distribution, backups, basically as soon as you are doing more than uploading a few tens of mp4’s longer than 10 mins you run into all sorts of infrastructure problems, and its very expensive in terms of hardware/cloud costs, would be looking at the tens of thousands in terms of infrastructure cost for a service no better than vimeo which has the advantage of economy of scale behind it and costs a lot less, for the satisfaction of not using vimeo but at the cost of budget to attend shows, produce content, pay staff and generally keep producing the content ;).

Unfortunately we are at their mercy, flakey streaming has been a perennial problem with backstager content for years, annoyingly it randomly crops up, with no clear distribution to users or isps involved, then fixes it self when vimeo tweaks their backhaul routing