How long should Flash video be?

Hi, my hosting company tells me that our company is using too
much bandwith and they'll have to charge us more. We have videos
that are in the 5 minute-range. In fact, one of our largest is 5
minutes and is 6.29 MB (on home page at urbanministries.com).
Another is 8.32 MB. Do those file sizes seem extraordinarily big?
Is there a rule of thumb when it comes to video length, size on the
Web?

if I were you I would change providers if possible. I've got
around 684 Gigs per month in band width for around $15/month
I have videos that are 20 & 30 minutes long also some
that are 2-8 minutes. Right now I use about 40% of my bandwidth per
month and thats before putting ALL my videos in flash, and since
.wmv files are larger than the .flv files I'm sure that will go
down as well allowing me to up the quality of the videos as
well....
but yeah if you would like to know the company I go thru PM
me and I'll be glad to give you the link.......

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