# Suggest to me a free video hosting service
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-to-me-a-free-video-hosting-service/656785
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 26, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-to-me-a-free-video-hosting-service/656785 "2013-04-26T19:13:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-to-me-a-free-video-hosting-service/656785/1 "2013-04-26T19:13:31Z")
I made some vidcaps of me doing moderator duties on a board and I’d like to post them somewhere the other mods on that board can review. So I need a video host, and I can’t figure out which of the hundred’s to use. I have:
7 AVI’s, from 32 Mb to 117 Mb in size, from 1:30 to 5:03 in duration, and I know that that’s just slightly too big for some services
I want the other mods to access them, and I don’t want other people to browse to it easily. Its videos of me busting spammers, I don’t want someone browsing these files and learning how to evade me better. But I don’t need iron-clad password security. Its me busting spammer, not me doing jumping jacks in an open kimono.
And since I’ve been on the internet since the '90’s, I expect this service to be free. Ha. OK, small unobtrusive ads are OK. But this is not my band’s demo tape, I don’t expect this to earn me money, so I don’t want to spend … well, any money.
And some users are in Europe, so maybe that matters as to who should be the hosting company. Or not.
I just need to know who to register with, maybe even if the first month is free, so I can quit the service after that. Thanks guys
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-to-me-a-free-video-hosting-service/656785/2 "2013-04-26T19:31:10Z")
Besides YouTube?
You can do private or unlisted videos on YouTube.
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### Author:  [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-to-me-a-free-video-hosting-service/656785/3 "2013-04-26T19:38:21Z")
I wasn’t aware that YouTube had a private function, but I will look into it. I just hope my big video doesn’t have problems … its just a tiny bit bigger than many services allow.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-to-me-a-free-video-hosting-service/656785/4 "2013-04-26T19:49:42Z")
YouTube’s size limit is 15 minutes and 2GB so you should be fine.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-to-me-a-free-video-hosting-service/656785/5 "2013-04-28T19:56:46Z")
Do note that the copyright fingerprint programs that YouTube lets the big copyright holders use will still index your video. I got a notice on a copyrighted video I uploaded to YouTube just to convert it to a form I could watch on my netbook. (And then forgot to delete it.)
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### Author:  [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-to-me-a-free-video-hosting-service/656785/6 "2013-04-29T19:03:52Z")
Well, like I said, its just my voice overlaid on a screen cap of my using another forum. If that somehow computes out to a hashtag finger print that matches _Iron Man 3_, the studio has bigger problems than copyright infringement.