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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

[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.