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Is it possible to use a different video host from the ones on the list in FV pro settings? I currently am using keycdn, but am looking into using B2 Backblaze because it is about 1/4 the cost …
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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,
Eduard
That 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 Scott,
We’ll discuss this within our team and I’ll let you know on how we decide to proceed with this.
Thanks,
Eduard
Could you please tell how to use private buckets?
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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Has this been looked into further. Recently, spring 2020, Backblaze annouced their S3 api compatibility…I’ve been playing with it a little bit but not much success unless I start building my own player.
Hello Jared,
Thanks for letting us know about the recently announced compatibility. Can you please send us any link to their website where we can find more info about it? I’ll test it and discuss it with our development team.
Thanks,
Juraj
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,
Martin
Good to know. I’m looking at bunnycdn now – is there a large difference between using that as opposed to was with your player? Does that take configuration on your end or is that just a matter of providing the correct keys/links to the player?
Hi 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
