We are moving all our services OFF vimeo for this exact same reason.
The part you mentioned about stats and info being opaque and then out of nowhere you are blocked out of your account resonates with my experience as well.
The part you mentioned about stats and info being opaque and then out of nowhere you are blocked out of your account resonates with my experience as well.
So what other places exist to post videos?
Digital Ocean? https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/streaming/
- videos encoded as these chunks in any cdn you find a good deal. I am using Bunny CDN and it's working quite well (but don't use their ftp 'home' storage, host on S3 and serve it from there since their ftp has abysmal upload speeds -- but if it serves you try it tho, their local storage for content is as cheap as 0,01USD/gb in the Falkestein zone)
We didn't want to split the origin and CDN, so we switched to Google storage. Vastly more expensive though.
We provide automatic import from Vimeo and conversion of the embeds as well with just a javascript snippet. And our pricing ends up being about 10-50% of the cost of what Vimeo is trying to push.
One of those time where having the right features at the right time has made it easy for people to get out of this Vimeo battle against their top customers.