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free or cheap mobile tube script
I started a small tube site with pimproll's hostedtube with a domain i had laying around about a year ago... It converted great (well, at least i recovered the registration costs in a couple of months with no effort on my side, and the traffic kept growing), but when i switched my domain management to cloudflare, pimproll just disabled my site...
I guess it's in their right to do so (i'm NOT calling them any names, they did NOT cheat in any way), i did violate the requirement of using their nameservers... But i tought i wasn't abusing their service... Even tough i did not use their nameservers, all traffic still went to their servers, i even saved them some bandwith.
Instead of giving me a fair warning ("switch the nameservers back or we'll disable you"), they just displayed a blank page with some generic error message. Took me several days to find out about it (tubes are not my main business), so i lost all the traffic that built up over the last couple of months...
Tried switchen the NameServers back, and contacted their support afterwards, but only got a reply after a couple of weeks. They were professional and friendly, but way to slow (i couldn't wait that long, so after just 1 or 2 days without response, i installed a tube-script on my own server and started over)...
My main problem with my current setup is the fact that it's a .mobi domain. I get a great deal of visitors with mobile devices. This used to work great with hostedtube, since they are perfectly equipped for mobile traffic, but since my migration i got into some small problems.
I currently use wpxtube, which is great, but not really suited for mobile surfers... I changed the templates a bit, but it's not perfect...
I'm the kind of guy who doesn't really want to pay a lot of $$$ when it's only for a small domain with little visitors (you can call me cheap, but i'm not willing to spend $200 if chances of recovering this money withing 1 year are very slim). Certainly not when there are so many scripts out there for free:
wpxtube (encoded)
tubex (it's open source now, so i guess it's free)
nubilestube (encoded)
hostedtube (will never use again)
stxtube (encoded)
The only scripts that are suitable for mobile traffic do cost a lot of money for a small domain tough (i know, some of these are a bargain if running tubes is your main business, and you're using them on a domain with tens of thousands uniques a day... But not so in my perticular case):
tube ace $200
adultscriptpro $200
adultwatch $200
automagick $100
mediaxxx $300
Does anybody know a really cheap (preferably free) script that is suited for mobile visitors?
I basically want a simple script that allows me load hosted videos from my sponsors, and couple them with an add for this sponsor.
It should have a nice design, and automatically switch to the mobile version if necessary. Categorisation is a plus, but not a requirement.
If there is nothing free or cheap on the market that does just this, i think i'll write my own one...
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