Even more reliability for your players on March 1st 2010
Now you can make your players more reliable
- taking advantage of Amazon's 99.99% reliability guarantee
Amazon promises to have 99.99% availability, with no downtime, so that your video / audio is always available to your customers, viewers and wider audience
Where will my players be stored?
All new players (from March 1st 2010) are created so that they are automatically stored in your Amazon S3 account, along with your media
Over the new year period, our server suffered a Denial of Service attack, and as such was down for a period of time - Unfortunately, this stopped some players from functioning while we rebooted the server and blocked the attack
Because of this, we have been working feverishly over that past few weeks to develop a system whereby your players can be embedded on your site more reliably
We are happy to announce that this service is available to all users of eZs3 - completely free of charge!
What does this mean for my new players?
From March 1st 2010, whenever you create new players, the configuration files for your players will be stored directly in your own Amazon S3 account
The players will be served directly from Amazon S3, taking full advantage of the level of service and reliability offered by Amazon
It also means that should the eZs3 server suffer from another attack in the future, your media will continue to play uninterrupted
What about my existing players?
Because of the change in location of the configuration files, we cannot automatically update existing players
If you want to take advantage of the new system, it's dead easy to update your players - simply:-
- go to view player
- copy and paste the new code
- embed into your web page, replacing the existing code
If you don't move your old players to the new system, your old players will still continue to work - but this may affect the delivery of your current players if we suffer another server attack
Remember.. from March 1st 2010, your players will be even more reliable!