VPS Hosting or Amazon Cloudfront for Video on demand via S2Member?

Hi
Which one would you prefer?
Amazon cloudfront or VPS Hosting to serve the videos via s2member?

We have no experience of VPS but we’ve used Amazon to host our videos (via s2Member) for several years now. It’s inexpensive and VERY reliable but because we have very slow broadband, we’ve found it better to use CrossFTP for uploading because the Amazon uploader times out.
Apart from this, we’re very happy with Amazon.

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Hi andynick How much Amazon S3 cost for you montly? and do you also use amazon cloudfront together with it?
Whats the cost of it? Because what I see from amazon is they calculate everything(get requests etc) and it would be cost too much.

Using Cloudfront. Approximately 1000 video page views per month (with the average video being around ten minutes) costs 12 GBP per month (15.84 US dollars).
The best way to find out is try it and see. You can cancel at any time.

Seems inexpensive for small membership sites. Thanks for the info.