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Hi Scott,
At this moment you can use it for serving videos from public buckets. I created a demo for you so you can see for yourself – https://foliovision.com/player/demos/blackblaze-hosting.
If you are interested, we could do some research on how to integrate the authentification token to use the private buckets.
Thanks,
EduardThat would be wonderful. Currently, I am doing my research as to which is the best way to go, but leaning heavily towards the b2 platform – absurdly cheaper and in my limited testing, performs better than keycdn- and they are my backup platform, so I only have to deal with one company. There is a workaround, apparently, to go through cloudflare with vanity links so at least the links to the public buckets are hidden. Not ideal, but for my purposes, reasonable. Thoughts?
thank you for your time
scott
Hi Konstantin!
Are you looking for instructions how to use private buckets with B2 Blackblaze or Amazon S3? Here is our documentation how to use serve private videos with Amazon S3
Thanks,
Lucia
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Here are a couple of articles on it. Backblaze has a partnership with Cloudflare for free first-mile traffic data transfers – might be a major cost savings as opposed to S3 and Cloudfront.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-b2-s3-compatible-api/
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/s3_compatible_api.htmlhttps://blog.cloudflare.com/backblaze-b2-and-the-s3-compatible-api-on-cloudflare/
Hello Jared,
we had a look at this some time ago, but our conclusion was that Cloudflare CDN is not permitted to be used for video:
The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as a part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications and rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents. Use of the Service for serving video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited.
— https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/
If you like BackBlaze and it supports S3 kind of API, perhaps you can use it with BunnyCDN which is also a lot cheaper than CloudFront (who needs all these fancy features).
Thanks,
MartinHi Jared,
BunnyCDN can just be set up to go. You’ll need to encode and upload your original video files somewhere but there’s a lot of choice there. We recommend Coconut.co for an online workflow. We’ve got an add-on coming to enable publishers to use Coconut.co and BunnyCDN (or another CDN) together,
Cheers, Alec