I am in the process of creating a youtube type site and would love to get some help regarding the setup.
Here is what I have planned so far:
- Use my current hosting: which is a dedicated virtual
- Upon user upload: use ffmpeg to convert and resize videos
- Videos will upload straight to Amazon S3 where they will be redistributed using Amazon CloudFront (which provides the media streaming)
My Questions:
- Will this setup work? If not, what am I missing?
- Is this an inexpensive route? (as in, is it a fairly decent setup?)
- If successful, will I lose my butt in overhead? There is always the gap between 'getting popular' and 'popular enough to make money with ads'
- What will I be looking at in startup costs?
I hope I posted this question on the correct site.