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I am preparing to soon upload all new video's I produce on to my own website instead of a platform.
I am asking if there is any one else who has done such a thing, so that I can look into subscribing to their RSS feeds and having things to watch that are not hosted on YouTube.
There's quite a few tech people using peertube as either the only or an alternative for hosting. You still need to host the original, but if people watch your stuff, maybe you'll save some bandwidth on the p2p distribution.
The only reason it would need to get more complicated than that, in my mind, is if you're serving largish amounts of traffic.
This is a nice example imho.
- if the target is making money than you are tied to very popular platforms, because it's only there the largest public (unfortunately);
- if the target is a selected audience you already know and they equally know you a feed publishing just new video URLs and files just dropped in a webserver suffice, you users only need to click the link to see, no web-crapplications nor WebVM (improperly named and known as browsers for legacy reasons) needed;
- if the target is personal nothing beat a storage media in your pocket...
I guess you could just upload all your videos to S3 and serve them over cloudfront. But Video seems to be tricky because there's the whole idea of encoding, adapting quality (detecting a poor connection and serving a low quality video, etc).
What I chose some time ago was Mux, they had a very good and developer friendly service.