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[sab]

K HALP.

So I'm eventually going to have about 50 GB of thirtysomething eps that need to be hosted somewhere, at about 500 MB an ep, and they preferably need to be hosted somewhere where lots of good LJ folk can continually access and redownload them for the next, oh, year or so.

Any recommendations for where I should host these eps? Preferably a service that supports batch uploading and has very fast upload speeds and/or at the very least supports an up/download manager? I will pay money for this service, natch.

Don't need a domain, e-mail, etc etc. DO need lots of storage and transfer bandwidth. Halp help?

LOVE
SAB

Comments

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I sprung for a permanent account at Megaupload. Something like $75 but it's a one-time charge with 250GB of storage, and uploads are good for several years before they expire. Their uploader is nothing to write home about, but it's adequate. You can start a bunch of stuff and turn it loose to run on its own, without having to watch it or start each upload individually.

Episode size files can be downloaded for free; movie size files require a paid account (or use of MU's software during off-hours).

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I currently have a premium account with MU and love it -- I'm just concerned that people without premium accounts won't be able to download my 500mb files. What do you think? Also, the MU uploader is taking about 8 hours per ep to upload, which strikes me as quite a long time.

Thoughts? And thanks!

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are really big episode files; sorry, I missed that in your initial post. I'm used to one-hour eps being about 360mb, give or take. Why so big? Can they be shrunk a bit to get them under the limit? (I'm rather tech-ignorant, I'm afraid, so I don't know if that's possible, much less how it might be done.)

I can usually upload a 360mb episode file in about 90 minutes, a movie in twice that, though of course it varies. (I'm on cable; my upload speeds run anywhere from 30k/sec to 55k/sec, probably averaging around 45k/sec.)

The other thing I use a lot is YSI, where I have an account that costs me about $5/month (I'm not sure if they still offer that one). I can upload files up to 2GB and they're good for up to 200 downloads each, but the problem is that they expire after only 14 days.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm reripping them as .mp4s, but the slow upload business is still confusing. I can usually DOWNLOAD a 350mb episode in about 14 minutes, and I was under the impression uploading is supposed to be faster? I seem to recall uploading 350 mb episodes in a matter of seconds...? Maybe I'm hallucinating.

Anyway, shrinking the eps seems to be the right solution, and I'm sticking with MU. Thanks again~

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Upload is slower, for most people

[http://users.livejournal.com/_abulafia/]

Uploading is usually a lot slower because ISPs almost always limit the upstream, usually to something really low like 15 kbps or, if you're a bit luckier, 50 kbps. I download at about the same rate that you do, and it takes me half the day to upload a file of the same time.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_abulafia/]

Of the same size.

[twentyfivepast.livejournal.com]

I download split .rar files a lot, and they're really not a hassle to rejoin and stuff. I know it's an extra step that might turn people off, but I've never had any problems using 7-Zip to rejoin files.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

You've probably already thought of this, but there's always splitting with hjsplit or RAR. Both are free programs (though the RAR is PC only, I think).

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

RAR is multiplatform :D

hjsplit

[gem225.livejournal.com]

I recommend hjsplit. Then you can split the .avi files (please, .avi files since I can play those!) and upload the split parts, as long as you let the downloaders know that they'll need to use hjsplit to rejoin them.

Take care, Sab. Love and hugs from me and Greg.

Re: hjsplit

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

hjsplit only works with windows, as far as their site says.

Re: hjsplit

[gem225.livejournal.com]

Well, that sucks. Thank you for letting me know, tzikeh, and sorry for the bad advice, iamsab.