Video storage & stream

Question

Hi,
i'm currently working on a project that involves users uploading a lot of videos and playing them from our website,
my concern isn't the hosting itself since terrabytes of storage aren't that expensive in the cloud,
but the bandwidth needed to play each of the videos X thousand times depending on the number of users.
Could you please enlighten me on the existing solutions to achieve that and stay on a reasonable hosting budget ?
Thanks

Answer 1

hi Sir,
>>my concern isn't the hosting itself since terrabytes of storage aren't that expensive in the cloud,but the bandwidth needed to play each of the videos X thousand times depending on the number of users.
For your concern, Azure storage egress data is Up to 20 gigabits per second in US regions and up to 10gigabits per second in European and Asian regions. I recommend you could refer to Azure Storage Scalability and Performance Targets details form this page
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn249410.aspx) .
There is a existing solution from Smarx's blog (http://blog.smarx.com/posts/smooth-streaming-with-windows-azure-blobs-and-cdn ), you could try it.
Another way, you can use the azure media service, please see this tutorials (
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/ ).
Regards,
Will
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