I would like to provide a service that involves hosting and streaming videos but I don't want to use third party video hosting services because I don't want to end up vendor locked.
Do hosting services provide specific media hosting or how does this work?
For example, I know that if I want to create a website I can have a MySQL database and a Node.js back/front-end server hosted by anyone really and boom, I have a website.
If I wanted to create a website that streamed videos, do I store videos in a MySQL database? what is best practice for fast retrieval?
As you can tell I am very lost when it comes to this subject and I would appreciate any insight as to best practices for hosting and streaming video (I have read through some articles but the reason I posted this is because technologies are changing all the time).
Thanks in advanced!
