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Hi,
I’m building a Pay-Per-View Video On-Demand Site. Am hoping to use dropbox as a CDN as it’s easy to use, quick and cheap. Just wondering will I be able to use the built in player here the same way it works with Amazon S3?
My main concern is security. Obviously you can never fully combat piracy but I would like as much protection as possible. Especially getting a hold of the DropBox link. Which would be put in my public folder although never given out.
Have already got both Emember and Estore plguins. Just wondering whether the lightbox ultimate would enable me to acomplish what I’m after?
Dropbox does not support the same features that make Amazon S3 integration possible with eStore.
Amazon S3 is the recommended approach for cloud hosting of video files. When you use Amazon, the downloading is handed off to the S3 servers; data moves directly from AWS to the buyer.
When you use the native eStore approach, your server acts as an intermediary, in order to protect the download source. This means that bandwidth usage doubles on your server; as data is first moved from the cloud source to the server, and then from the server to the buyer.
Amazon S3 uses the same servers that Netflix uses; short of the occasional “super storm,” the reliability is unmatched. And the monthly cost is continously going down.
Dam ok. Just a shame as Dropbox works perfeclty for video’s. Would also leave me feeling better and easier to use. So you wouldn’t advise using this method? Even just for streaming on-demand? Not actually downloading.
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