How much does it cost to set up a YouTube style website with audio downloads?

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

I worked for the Internet Archive for 5-1/2 years as a volunteer.  On May 25, 2020 they banned me and deleted all my uploads, which totaled 70,000 to 110,000 items.  The collection was a mix of film, video, audio, photos, artwork and PDF books. 

I don't have an exact number of items as I never counted the number of items in each collection. To me it was like putting money in a piggy bank. You keep putting in, you know it is a lot, but you never know what the exact amount is.  I lost some of the material as I used the Internet Archive as a cloud and didn't keep a backup. But I have the original files for about 90% -95% of the items. I wrote Internet Archive to ask if they could restore my account for a couple of days so I could download my lost files, but got no reply.

Beside having a photo and PDF website, is it practical for an individual to set up a mini YouTube type website that can have downloadable video and downloadable audio? The video does not have to be exactly like YouTube.  It can be downloadable video files with just sample still clips or stills if a YouTube video style website is too pricey to make and maintain.

If so, how much does it cost to set up such a website?

How much a year is it to maintain it?

Where would I go to learn how to do it? 

High resolution files of all the archival material I contributed was free to all.  I called my archive 'The People's Archive.'  Sadly, I didn't even get up 1% -2% of my films before they deleted it all. Even so I had somewhere around 125 films and VHS videos uploaded.  Here is the material the Internet Archive deleted and what I want to put on my website.

Early Photography: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Opalotypes, Tintypes, Cyanotypes, Glass Plates, Autochromes, Gum Bichromate, Platinum, Palladium, Bromoil, & Salt Prints.

C.D.V. & Cabinet Cards

Sodbusters - Prairie Settlers

Fat Women of the 1800's

Fashion, Portrait & Vernacular Photographs from the 19th Century

Early Japanese 19th Century Albumen Photographs & Glass Plates

Early 20th Century Rodeo Photographs

Vintage Ballerinas & Dancers

Historical Collotype, Woodburytype, Photogravure & Halftone Plates

Pre-Jazz Era – WW I

Roaring 20’s – Flappers1930’s – Depression Era1940’s – WW II

Eiffel Tower

Bobbysoxers

Vintage Schools, Classrooms & Students

Vintage Dye Transfer Prints

Steel Pier Diving Horses

Girls with Cameras

1950’s – Extensive Beat Generation Archives

1960’s – Hippies

Vintage Kodachrome Slides

Fashion 1845 – 1980: Dresses, Hats, Ribbons, Bows, Bonnets, Buttons & Shoes

19th & 20th Century Muffs - Purses

Victorian & Edwardian Husband & Wife Portraits
19th Century Children

Extensive Collection of 19th & Early 20th Century Wedding Dresses

Mid 20th Century Satin & Lace Wedding Dresses

Tea Length Wedding Dresses

Vintage Wedding Parties

Vintage Bridal Bouquets & Nosegays

Vintage Bridal Headpieces

Magic Lantern Slides

Vintage Boxing Ladies

Artists & Art Studios

Mutilated Photos – Faces Cut Out

Vintage Travel Trailers

Breastfeeding

Majorettes

Vintage Radio, Hi-Fi, Reel to Reel, Television, HAM and Vacuum Tube Photos & Ephemera

QSL Postcard Archive / QSL Risqué Postcards

Historical Audio Recordings

Acetate Records

Airchecks Radio Transcriptions

Phil Schaap Jazz Archive

Reel to Reel & Cassette Tapes

Ruth Wallis Archive

Living Letters Archive

Nesta Kerin Crain Archive

Radio Station Photos and Ephemera

Early Beachwear

Fredericks of Hollywood Archive

Sami Laplanders Archive

Women’s Hairstyles 1840 – 1980

Hair Curlers

Christmas – Santa Claus – Snowmen

Vintage New York City

Before Photoshop – Retouched Photos

Of Historical Interest

Macabre

Yawning

Vintage Eyeglasses

Vintage African Postcards

Vintage Middle East Postcards

Newsworthy

Vintage Press Photos

Politics

Nixon Archive

JFK Archive

The McCarthy Era

Vintage Football

Press Photographers – Press Cameras

Roadside Americana – Dinosaur Statues

Stereo Photography

Painted (Retouched) Press Photos

Gender Studies

Vintage Nudes

Upskirts

Vintage Pornography

Sexual Deviants

Early Bondage, BDSM Photos and Ephemera

Crossdressers

Homosexual Erotica

Early Transvestite - Female Impersonators - Mimic Publications

Vintage Explicit Personal Correspondence

8mm and 16mm Vintage Pornography 1920 – 1970

16mm Adult Film Trailers

Vintage Homosexual & Heterosexual Cartoon Photos

Vintage 16mm Kodachrome Home Movies 1938 – 1960

Historical 16mm Films 1920 – 1960

Vintage Train Films

Educational Films & School Daily Life

Circus Films

Underground Films

Art Films – ‘Art Student’ Figure Films

Silent Films / Silent Films with later added comic narration

Cine Arts Films

Small Gauge Reel and Film Can Archive

Film Rental Catalogs

Vintage 1970’s VHS Pornography Videotapes1970’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS

Vintage Erotic Cartoons

Early #800, #900 & ‘.com’ Sex Ads on VHS

Early Homosexual VHS Sex Ads

Japanese 1980’s VHS Pornography Videotapes

Japanese 1980’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS

Obscure VHS Videotapes

Political Comix

Vintage Medical Photos

Sleepers

RPPC’s Propaganda

Outcasts

Underground Social Documentary Photography

Vernacular Snapshot Aesthetics

Vintage Circus

Vintage Night Photography

Whimsical

Halloween

Blackface

Historical NAACP / Racial Prejudice

Picnics

Ghost Transfer Images

Black Panther - Black Power Publications

Belle Barth Archive

Switchboard Operators

Vintage Parades1940’s – 1960’s

Swimsuits & Sportswear

Vintage Umbrellas & Parasols

Weegee Archive

Vintage Rodeo

Currier & Ives Darktown Comics

Vintage Print Advertising

Stripper Groupies

See-through Negligée

Trocadero Theatre

Bettie Page Archive

Hand-Colored Photos

Maurice Seymour Archive

Irving Klaw Zine & Ephemera

Irving Klaw Negative Archive

Vintage Pinups

Eric Stanton Illustrations

Sexploitation

Vintage Birthday Parties

Donald Trump

Film Era Ephemera

Vintage Cine’ & Still Camera Ephemera

Leica Publications & Ephemera

Vintage High School & College Yearbooks

Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy Collection

Down Syndrome

Self Harm – Cutters

Postmortem Photographs

Early Computer, Video & Cell Phone Ephemera

Black Americana

Vintage Sheet Music

Artists’ Books

Vintage Comix – Comics

Original Comix Art & Ephemera

Neo-Nazi - White Power Publications

Mimeograph Machine Photos & Ephemera

Vintage Jazz Photos, Periodicals & Ephemera

Yodeling Dick Brooks Archive

Early Mountain, Country, Hillbilly, Western & Folk Music

WWVA Jamboree Archive

Square Dance Music, Call Sheets and Ephemera

Mimeo Revolution Press – Little Magazines –Independent Press Poetry

Counterculture & Underground Newspapers

Paladin Press Archive

Covid-19 - Coronavirus Audio Archive

Vintage Newspapers

Handbills

Malware / Ransomware / SPAM / Robocall Correspondence

Laserdiscs

Zines

 

...Thanks for any help!

Edited June 9, 2020 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

Now, even if a person is rich there can be no continuity online. Lets say I was rich and could set up my own dream website. As soon as I kicked off an stopped paying the bills my website would go poof.

And even if I set up a Foundation to run it, the Foundation would be composed of prejudiced people with their own egos and agenda.  Sooner or later they would **(obscenity removed)** up the Archive.

I'm one of the few people in the world that could run such a website as I have no prejudice when it comes to archival work. I work true to form. Fads, politics and complaints don't phase me. Since I am non commercial, threats of boycott and physical threats do not affect me.

Nowadays with the 'cancel culture' they will try to destroy a person they do not agree with by any means and sometimes that means is physical.  I carry a Glock wherever I go and have a SBR in my trunk with easy access via the pass through. (In NYC I keep a low profile as I can't carry my guns.)

Now sure, I got plenty or personal prejudices, but they do not extend to archival work. I check my personal prejudices at the door when it comes to my work.

The Getty Museum worked around some of these problems I bring up. They set the standard for how an archive should be managed and shared with the world. They share their copyright owned material for free and in hi-res, that can be used for any use and in easy to download files.

I model my own Archive after the Getty. Being an underground Archive, I even go beyond what the Getty offers. I share hi-res files of things I don't own the copyright to, but I assume would not be a problem sharing do to age and or fair use. In other words...I push the envelope. And if there would be a complaint, I'd take it down. But in 5-1/2 years of work, I've only had a couple of copyright complaints. (Film copyright complaints were more common.)

Making sure an archive is distributed around the world and is in as many hands as possible is a good way to preserve a semblance of an archive before the POS that eventually take it over get their hands on it and start working to dismantle it and erase history.

Edited June 10, 2020 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.