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Originally Posted by IGNAS
Hey guys,
I'm looking forward to launching a tube site, but have no experience with them.
I know that no one wants or will share the "secrets" to a successful tube, but I certainly would like to find out some essential things.
So my main concern/question would be regarding content.
I see many many sites with millions (!) of videos indexed, some of them are only a few years old or etc.
So concern no. 1 (content):
- How and where do they get so many of them? Certainly, you can hire people to upload them for you, but still it would take a huuuge amount of time to complete.
- Another issue - they're probably not (?) scrape'ing them because otherwise google would probably punish them.
- Last issue - if you're downloading them from somewhere and re-uploading them to your site - how do you avoid DMCA removals from Google?
Because most of them, of course, are copyrighted and it's only a matter of time before someone decides to dmca you.
Concern no. 2 (CMS):- Which platform (CMS) would you recommend and why?
- I know wordpress can be applied to run a tube, but is it worth it? Maybe KVS, Mechbunny or etc. is better?
Concern no. 3 (hosting):- Regarding all the legalities and risks, are there any good reasons NOT to use an offshore dedicated server to store all the videos?
Any kind of advice and answers are super-HIGHLY appreciated!
Thank you!  |
1)
- It takes alot of time to collect that many videos, because you have to process them too not just add them
- Alot of sites use embeds
- Scraping is very difficult now because most sites are behind cloudflare and it detects scrapers as a bot.
- Many large tube sites have APIs that you can grab embeds from, which is a relatively fast way to load your site with embeds.
2)
- Mechbunny, but i'm biased.
- Wordpress is a CMS for running a blog that people have hacked into a million other things.
3)
- The legalities depend on where you are based, what TLD your domain is (.com is considered a US asset),etc. Even most offshore hosts will ask you to remove content, no one is going to bother with a court battle over your $200-300/month server. It's best to just follow DMCA.