 Hello and welcome to this podcast thing by filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris K. Link in the description. I am Chris and today I'm going to talk and you're going to either listen or Turn this recording off one of the two. It's up to you. See you're in control. I hope that makes you feel awesome and powerful What I'm going to talk about today is those times where um, you've been doing things wrong Sometimes especially when it comes to software, maybe you've been doing something a certain way And you were doing it wrong maybe because you didn't realize there was a better way to do it But I'm bringing this up because you know some of you are patrons over at patreon.com forward slash mylex 1,000 I appreciate your support and one of the things that my patrons get are Downloaded videos videos they can download video downloads. Yeah, and I've been doing this for a couple years now and Originally so a couple years ago. I had my website hosted through host Gator, which was okay company I didn't I wasn't really pleased with them at the towards the end and I moved on to what I think were better solutions so far So far I've moved originally way back in the day. My website was done through tripod. You might as you remember tripod They were free websites back in the late 90s early 2000s Eventually I started paying to get the ads off my website So I had that for a while and then at some point I started using go daddy And then they started bumping up the price I wasn't happy with them and a buddy of mine worked for host Gator at the time And so he gave me like a coupon code and I switched to them I was with them for a couple of years, but then you know the intro rate expired and they want to hike up my prices and I Complain and at first they didn't want to so I started switching and then they got oh, oh, you're leaving Okay, we'll give you a discount like I'm sorry. I'm already leaving it. So I moved to currently. I'm on vulture vulture and it's the first time I've had a Virtual private server before it was just web hosting. So it was a Linux machine That I could ssh into but I had very limited access with this I have a full Debian machine running and and they are no way a sponsor. I want to make that clear I've been very happy with them It cost me two dollars and fifty cents to have a full Debian Linux machine that I have full root access to I pay an extra dollar for automatic backups I can make manual backups, but I won twice a week. It makes a automatic backup for me So in case I really screw stuff up. I can go back to a recent version And for you know, so with that it's 350 a month My domain name still through go daddy because I paid like 10 years in advance Anyway, one of the drawbacks though, you know much much happier with this I have much more powerful, you know more more processing power more RAM It's still I think I got a half a giga grams not a lot But way more than enough for what I do on it, which I do a lot of stuff through my web server The one thing is I only have 15 or 20 gigs of storage which is plenty for running a website But if I was going to before with go daddy, I had unlimited storage So I was just posting the videos on there for my patreon's download with the you know Security key to log in and download them when I would post the links on on patreon So when I switch I was like, okay, I got clear all those out. What's my option now? I don't want to spend any more money if I can avoid it and You know, I have a few Google accounts. So I started posting the videos, you know, you got 15 gigs in there So basically I would post it But then I would slowly have to clear out the old videos over time, which I didn't really like doing Plus, you know a lot of people and rightfully so don't like Google And so far none of my patreon's have complained, but I wouldn't want someone to not become or complain that I'm putting these video downloads on Google because some people are completely against using Google services, which actually is a another video I completely get that but then sometimes the alternative isn't any better people go to it but we'll I'll do another video on that and I'm So I've been doing that for like two years now So I want a better option And I'm positive I looked into this at the time So maybe the feature was added at some point and I missed it and I'm just now realizing it I just realized the other day I have uploaded a few things and I don't know if there's a size limit or a file number limit But patreon lets you upload attachments to your posts and I'm positive I looked for that feature when I first started using Doing this and I'm assuming they must have added the feature at some point I was a pretty early adopter to patreon so So basically what I'm saying is At the time recording this I still have a bunch of videos that I've already put up on Google Drive that my patreon's will be downloading from but I'm going to try to just post the videos for my patreon's to download And audio files and whatever I create to patreon itself again I don't know if there's a file size limit or not But so far it's been working pretty good allows me to share things with my patrons And if I want to give you know set Access to other viewers later on so the patron patrons get early access and that's something I I wish YouTube would add That when I post a video you have options for scheduled public private or enlisted and While it's scheduled if it's scheduled it's considered private until it's publicly posted I wish they had an option that because a lot of you out there are our Subscribers on YouTube. I would love to have those you know you loyal fans who subscribe to me And I wish that I could you know upload a video Give my patreon's you know early access to their download videos But then get my subscribers Also some sort of access where you get it a day or two before someone who just comes across my channel that way rewarding you guys You know so it's basically it posts if you're a subscriber You get it at one point and then send another date for it to go public to everybody else just to encourage people to subscribe I would think that would be a great feature that YouTube I easily be able to implement and And I think it would be great because it would get more people subscribing to channels rather than just wandering around aimlessly on YouTube anyway doing things better. Hopefully this is a better option. I do thank you for listening and Please visit films by Chris calm. That's Chris the K if you're watching this on YouTube There's a link in the description of the video if you're a patreon if you're patron on patreon You probably already know where my website is be sure to check it out there's a lot of videos and stuff you can search through there and code I've written programs and Yeah, if you can support me over on patreon.com forward slash Alex 1000. This is Chris and I hope that you have a great day