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Originally Posted by Merci Alizée
Divide the video section in two parts. One AAm videos and other AAm youtube videos.
For AAm videos, prepare a list of must watch videos. One example of such a list : http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/show...7&postcount=24 This list would contain those videos which will be must watch ones and suffer various limitations of the youtube.
At present there are 126 videos on AAm. The new list would have upto 20-25 videos which would still reduce the cost significantly. Also the new additions to this list won't be many.
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Thanks for all the suggestions, though this one won't work. The server cost isn't due to the number of videos or overall traffic per month, it's the throughput needed to provide smooth streaming to multiple users at once at any given moment. Videos are a different beast from images and pages because once playing they can't be broken up, queued, and delivered as bandwidth becomes available. So we need to maintain a high output rate at all times. There could be one video on the site and the price would still be the same.