We’re currently hosing our VSLs on cloudfront and all is good.
But we work with some very big affiliates running traffic to these VSLs and I would like to put a failsafe in place which automatically starts streaming the VSLs from a backup solution in case something goes wrong with amazon (just in case… to prevent our affiliates running traffic to blank pages and to keep the great relationship with them)
Some of our VSLs contain adult-themed material (no porn)
Wistia I’m aware of but looking for other solid suggestions where we can host VSLs
A service like Wistia is just going to be using providers like AWS underneath the hood anyways (s3 + cloudfront). Check this out: http://highscalability.com/blog/2015...d-process.html
They store all videos in s3 just like anyone else can and then looks like they rotate between various CDN's. In that article they list Akamai as an example. It's possible that a service like Wistia will pull video from a different CDN if cloudfront is down, but based on my experience with s3 and cloudfront I really wouldn't be worried about it unless you're actually experiencing outages.
This will require more technical skills but check this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comment...y_paired_with/
Also search for "cloudfront failover", "s3 failover", and both but with "stackoverflow" in front. Some good discussions on this.
Just to throw some ideas of how I would approach this, apologies for any jargon....
Multiple Cloud Dedicated server from Liquidweb (or similar full managed) in global datacentres for the actual landing page
Depending on where you traffic is, you might want to add some other geos
1 x USA
1 x EU
https://www.liquidweb.com/products/cloud-dedicated/
DNS Failover & Geo Redirect using Cloudflare
Routes traffic to the nearest server for better performance. In case one server goes down, it redirects all traffic
https://www.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/
Video CDN using holaspark.com
Used by a lot of big porn sites and they are ok with somewhat compliant stuff
I'm not sure of exact policies, but I cant imagine wystia being cool with somewhat agressive stuff, they seem quite brand conscious