Dinnae Hammer ur Webserver for Movies
Ive recently got me a samson audio microphone complete with pop filter for recording screencasts for oentries. As a side note screencasting for the mac is pretty good for explaining how to make screencasts on the cheap.
After making your screencast, they are a considerable size. Theres no point hammering your wee vps or shared server delivering this content. Its a better plan to rely on Amazon S3 to do this for you.
A quick easy way to do this is to get the s3fox firefox extension to upload your media files. Its pretty good but still a bit flaky.
- Create a new bucket (you need to do this through command line api)
- Go into S3 Fox open the bucket and upload your files.
- Right click on the files and set them to be publicly viewable.
- They are now available on http://s3.amazonaws.com/[bucket_name]/
Now your app webserver can sleep happy and spend its time dealing with app requests.