I am managing a Wordpress website that uses the Ultimate Video Player plugin in order to render video files that are stored in my Google Drive account.
Plugin details: https://www.webdesign-flash.ro/p/uvp/
In order to render the Google Drive video files, this plugin needs the video file sources to be created using the following format:
https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/[file_id]?alt=media&key=[api_key]&v=[.mp4/.mp3/etc] (which is actually the download link for the specific file)
Therefore I have created a Google API key that I’m using to build my video source links.
In the Quotas section, I see that there is a limitation of 1 billion queries per day.
Does this mean that my video files can be played by my website’s users 1 billion times without exceeding the limit? Does watching an entire video (one full movie) just decrease this 1 billion limitation by 1? Or does the download quota decrease in a different way when it comes to watching videos?
Thank you!
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I am managing a Wordpress website that uses the Ultimate Video Player plugin in order to render video files that are stored in my Google Drive account.
Plugin details: https://www.webdesign-flash.ro/p/uvp/
In order to render the Google Drive video files, this plugin needs the video file sources to be created using the following format:
https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/[file_id]?alt=media&key=[api_key]&v=[.mp4/.mp3/etc]
Therefore I have created a Google API key that I’m using to build my video source links.
So here are my questions:
Are there any limitations as to how many times a video can be visualised on my website (how many hits it gets) using the GoogleAPI key created?
Is there a download quota that can be exceeded by rendering these video files on my website as described above?
Thank you very much for your assistance.
I have my app live in Google play store for more than a week now. It is NOT available in Google Search result, even when searching with the query consisting of "exact app name + Google play store". I can get it easily when searching inside Google play store.
I have added a 1000 word app description, even submitted the app to Google search console.
Am I missing something? But that's not the real issue. I have a third party app store named https://apkpure.com in the search results with links to my app on their store.
I have not even added/submitted my app to their store. They seem to have taken everything from the Google Play store (even the screenshots + descriptions which I submitted in Play store). They are stealing the search results to google play store (which is 0). They seem to do a better job at SEO than Google Play store.
What should I do be doing ?
The issue seems to be that your app is not optimized for search engines. A quick search on Googles Dev website shows some tips to improve your search optimization Failing that, there are guides and resources available to help you improve your search rank. A major factor is popularity though.
In the Google Play store, your app gains new certification based on the number of downloads. (That's why you see the download badge in the app's page) The more downloads and positive reviews, the better search rank you will get.
If you pay to sponsor your app, you an send it to the top of the results page that way, the same way Google search ads work.
As for apkpure, if your app, or those screenshots or descriptions are copyright protected, which they are if you publish them to Google's play store, then apkpure violated copyright. Send Google a complaint, and they will handle it. That is part of why you have to pay 25 dollars for a developer account.
Best of luck to you, I hope that you can improve your search rating, and I hope your dispute is resolved.
I know Google AMP Cache caches valid AMP pages and resource files of a website and make them available via .cdn.ampproject.org/. I made some tests and it works fine for my website.
I work for a popular website with terabytes of throughput per day. What happens if I make all my image files available via google AMP Cache? Will AMP Cache just serve my files for free?
Is this a free CDN service? If it is free, why are companies paying for CDN services?
My boss just don't buy the idea that google AMP cache is a free CDN. He asks "what if the service is discontinued abruptly?" or "what if they start to charge the throughput?". Is there any gotcha?
Does anyone know about a big company currently using the AMP Cache as a CDN?
Using the Google AMP Cache for serving images for display outside of documents served from the Google AMP Cache is not a supported use and may not work, or may stop working in the future.
[Tech lead of AMP here]
You can use AMP cache for contents on your AMP pages for free, there is a limitation on size, from FAQ:
Are there size limits on resources?
Yes, the Google AMP Cache does not fetch any resources (i.e., HTML,
images, fonts) that are larger than 12 MB. In these cases, the Google
AMP Cache returns a 404 error.
Does anyone know about a big company currently using the AMP Cache as a CDN?
Just to calm your boss, AMP pages is being used by prestigious online publishers around the world including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vox Media, BuzzFeed, The Guardian and The New York Times and Twitter as well.
But I'm concerned if there are limits on bytes transferred or number of client requests.
- The batchGet method has a default limit of 50; request up to 50 AMP URLs each time you call this method. This is found in AMP Usage Limits.
I have a wordpress site, and it has more that 30k posts.
Every post has own feature image, and each feature image has 10 responsive sizes.
#10076 post has 13 thumbnails
So there are about 300k image files, and this reaches to the File Usage Limit(inode limit) of hosting service.
File Usage Indicator
How can I reduce the number of thumbnails?
For example, when we use 2~3 thumbnails, we can store 120k~180k posts.
Well, are there any other hosting services which can store more than 300k files?
Sure, it is possible. There are several plugins in the WP repository that will automatically push uploads to S3 or some other CDN (e.g. WP Offload S3 Lite).
But the biggest challenge you'll face is in migrating the huge collection of images you already have. Anything you run from a web browser will almost certainly die trying. WP-CLI is the only real option for large-scale maintenance tasks. Take a look at S3-Uploads.
Alternatively you could push files to S3 manually and dynamically rewrite media URLs in WordPress by hooking into post_thumbnail_html or some such. You could build a cachable "does this exist?" check into your filter so it only rewrites image URLs that can actually be found at Amazon.
empty your trash folder in File Manager and file usage will drop significantly.
I have a landing page where I'll be embedding a video on my page and allowing users to view it when visiting the site.
I'm using an Azure Website for hosting my site, and ASP.NET/MVC 5 for the server. I have a huge video (345 MB) that I'd like to store on my server, and simply play in the browser.
I'm currently using a video tag to do this and it works fine. My question is, is storing a huge video as part of my website a valid approach to this? Will the data being sent to the user from my server cost us money? Are there better approaches for storing huge videos and still being able to embed them on the site?
My question is, is storing a huge video as part of my website a valid
approach to this?
I don't think so that this is the right approach.
Will the data being sent to the user from my server cost us money?
Yes. Any data that is sent out of Azure is chargeable.
Are there better approaches for storing huge videos and still being
able to embed them on the site?
Use Blob Storage instead. Blob storage is meant for that purpose only. Furthermore, you can make use of Azure CDN so that your video will get replicated/cached across many CDN nodes and will be served from a CDN location closest to your website visitor.