What Video Storage/Hosting/CDN for Streaming They Are Using?

Hey, I am creating a new video streaming website. I was looking for a good video hosting for free because as starter paid is not an option. I found couple of sites like Doodstream and others. But I found 2 websites, that got my peak attention because of their player and functionality. They are "MISSAV" and "JABLE". I have tried to find the by using HLS links but no luck, as I found some sites before by using links. If anyone knows or can find it would be very helpful. It doesn't matter if they are using a premium or free server/site, I just want to know what they are using. Thanks

BABAxo said:

Hey, I am creating a new video streaming website. I was looking for a good video hosting for free because as starter paid is not an option. I found couple of sites like Doodstream and others. But I found 2 websites, that got my peak attention because of their player and functionality. They are "MISSAV" and "JABLE". I have tried to find the by using HLS links but no luck, as I found some sites before by using links. If anyone knows or can find it would be very helpful. It doesn't matter if they are using a premium or free server/site, I just want to know what they are using. Thanks

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For a new video streaming website, it’s important to balance functionality with cost, especially when starting out. You might want to explore free or affordable video hosting options with good CDN support, even though some may have limitations on storage or bandwidth. While it's tricky to pinpoint exactly what others are using, looking for services that offer scalable hosting solutions with features like adaptive bitrate streaming could be a good start. Keep in mind, though, that the right platform will depend on your specific needs for traffic, video quality, and security.

Doesn't look like any publicly known video host such as Dood, Lulu, etc. Maybe they're using a CDN or just their own bucket storage?

BABAxo said:

Hey, I am creating a new video streaming website. I was looking for a good video hosting for free because as starter paid is not an option. I found couple of sites like Doodstream and others. But I found 2 websites, that got my peak attention because of their player and functionality. They are "MISSAV" and "JABLE". I have tried to find the by using HLS links but no luck, as I found some sites before by using links. If anyone knows or can find it would be very helpful. It doesn't matter if they are using a premium or free server/site, I just want to know what they are using. Thanks

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Perhaps you need a better CDN.
SwarmEdge is a decentralized P2P + CDN cloud distribution network designed specifically for video platforms and high-traffic applications.
Reduce your CDN traffic delivery costs by more than 50%.

BABAxo said:

Hey, I am creating a new video streaming website. I was looking for a good video hosting for free because as starter paid is not an option. I found couple of sites like Doodstream and others. But I found 2 websites, that got my peak attention because of their player and functionality. They are "MISSAV" and "JABLE". I have tried to find the by using HLS links but no luck, as I found some sites before by using links. If anyone knows or can find it would be very helpful. It doesn't matter if they are using a premium or free server/site, I just want to know what they are using. Thanks

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Their trick is very simple.

1. Sign up for Cloudflare R2
2. Create custom domain
3. Pay for R2 plan
4. Convert videos into HLS
5. Stream the videos from custom domain so it does not look like it is from cloudflare R2 storage.

You only pay for storage and free bandwidth for life. You can use even 500000000TB of bandwidth and still pay $0 fees, and only for storage. Thats how they do it. Same for some old sites that was taken down, probably they did not use custom domain and the owner copyright hire a lawyer to dig out more information from them and they got caught and jailed. You can try grab a master HLS playlist from one of their videos and submit to cloudflare abuse form, and they will reply they will take action to remove that particular video, as long the ID exist in their R2 bucket.

I would suggest if anyone wish to take this route, get a virtual card to pay for plans, you do not want a professional takedown service to ddox your information and submit to law enforcement with your real card information. I am using this method and my bandwidth usage is around 65PB combined in all my websites, and i pay $0 usd for it, and only paying around 1500usd monthly just for storage.

BABAxo said:

Hey, I am creating a new video streaming website. I was looking for a good video hosting for free because as starter paid is not an option. I found couple of sites like Doodstream and others. But I found 2 websites, that got my peak attention because of their player and functionality. They are "MISSAV" and "JABLE". I have tried to find the by using HLS links but no luck, as I found some sites before by using links. If anyone knows or can find it would be very helpful. It doesn't matter if they are using a premium or free server/site, I just want to know what they are using. Thanks

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my approach would be to spend less time on figuring out exactly which service to use and concentrate more on the architecture itself HLS can be streamed using a regular web server or CDN whereas storage encoding and streaming can be done separately AWS CloudFront is an example of such architecture.