Hey @mcfarnell,
Yeah spot on, in fact all shared hosting companies do not allow sermons to be stored on there, since that’s using the web hosting as a ‘file storage’ solution, which it’s not intended for.
We recommend/urge churches to use Amazon s3 for all their sermon storage needs. Its scale-able and cost effective.
Once set up, if you ever need to take your sermons onto another set up, its as simple as exporting them out, importing them in and done, since all the MP3’s are Amazon S3 links/URL’s.
You might take a look at Backblaze B2 as well; their pricing is about a quarter of Amazon S3: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
Hey @macbookandrew,
Cool share thanks! I hadn’t personally seen these guys until now, crazy to think they can offer storage cheaper than the top 3.
Have you been using this yourself or? If so, how do you interface with the storage, upload sermons etc?
Thanks,
Igor
@wpforchurch I haven’t personally been using it for sermon storage, but I use it for server backups and other storage.
Just wrote a blog post explaining how to use it for hosting sermons: https://andrewrminion.com/2017/05/backblaze-b2-sermon-manager-storage/
