NicolaLottQ: I am quite confused by this deal!
- I admit I am not a pro. web developer, so it's easy to confuse me...but...
Your copy says that this provides unbranded video hosting. This led me to believe that you host the videos, but that's not what this is. I still have to find somewhere to host the videos. Swarmify is acting as some sort of an intermediary 'afterburner' to increase the speed and buffering of the videos.
I also don't understand what it means when you say that this deal includes "Access unlimited video bandwidth, encoding, and storage." How can there be any bandwidth and storage, when we are not storing the videos through you?
Please clarify, thanks!
Philip_Swarmify
May 15, 2024A: Hi,
Thanks for the question. We are indeed a video host, but as mentioned to others, Swarmify works a little differently than most video hosts. We believe you should be in possession of your *original* files at all times and we pull a copy from a variety of original source locations of your choice. Most customers keep their original files in some type of online location/bucket anyway.
So when you publish a video you merely point Swarmify to where that original files lives, then the platform fetches a copy of that file one time, processes 5-10 encodings of each for all desktop and mobile devices, *stores* those various encodes on a global delivery network, and accelerates playback in our clean, lightweight player to your end-users.
We list many source locations we are compatible with (including publishing tutorials) at https://support.swarmify.com.
Here's also a little more about how Swarmify works: https://support.swarmify.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043225634-How-SmartVideo-works