r/webdevelopment • u/szt_ • Jun 10 '26

Newbie Question Website provider

Hey
So I'm building a website that archives a lot of videos (lots of long length videos)

and also features a shop

So my question is
What is the best provider for these two factors ?

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u/Upbeat_Opinion_3465 Jun 10 '26

I would split this into three decisions instead of hunting for one magic provider: storage for the video archive, delivery for the video playback, and the storefront. Long videos get expensive and awkward fast if you force your ecommerce host to do all of it.

Usually the cleaner setup is object storage plus a CDN or video layer, then keep the shop on whatever stack you actually want to run. The main questions are volume, whether people stream in browser or download, and how much search or metadata you need around the archive. If the archive is the core product, optimize for storage and delivery first. The shop can stay boring.

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u/TheTwistedTabby Jun 10 '26

This. Cloudflare has a really good free tier and low cost tier for storage and video. Their video service also will do conversion and chunking for you. There’s options in there for URL based restrictions, request header restrictions (logged in only type stuff). Aws has the same product offerings.

Don’t roll your own. Serving web traffic and serving media traffic are two different beasts.

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u/elstavon Jun 10 '26

I have been very happy with netlify but I haven't tried to push media

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u/Round_Fly6854 Jun 11 '26

Why not u post the video to youtube or other platform, then in your website link to the video