Dear Transloaders,

it is now possible to replay an assembly notification by pressing a button on the website.

If you have configured a notify_url for your assembly's params, you will see a button "Retry Notification" on an assembly's detail page. This is helpful for debugging and for the cases where the notification went wrong because you did not return a 200 status code or anything.

Enjoy!

Kind regards Tim

@tim_kos

Dear Transloaders,

We are happy to announce a new member of the robot family: The YouTube store robot!

This guy is still pretty simple - it can only export videos to your YouTube user account and make them available there. You can provide a title, description, category and tags, and everything will work auto-magically. However, in the future he might be capable of doing more.

This robot is still a young boy (read: beta) and has had little real world testing so far. As all other robots, the youtube/store robot is 100% covered by automated tests but there could still be something wrong with it.
Please bear with us a little in case you discover bugs.

Here is the documentation: http://transloadit.com/docs/youtube-store

Please all give a warm welcome to the youtube/store robot :)

Kind regards, Tim

PS: The robot's avatar will follow shortly.

Pricing is hard, and we have gotten a lot of complaints about the complexity of cost-prediction with our current model over time. We have also found that we need to introduce a small base fee in order to provide our service to smaller companies without losing money.

So today we are announcing a new pricing that is hopefully going to simplify things for you as a customer, and for us as a business.

Here is what we are changing:

1. We are adding a free plan (100 MB / month), ideal for personal projects or very small sites.
2. The next plan is $19 / month, includes 6 GB of service usage, and every additional usage is charged at $3.50 / GB.
3. GB discounts are available by choosing a plan with a higher base fee.

The Transition Plan

Effective immediately, you are being switched to a "Transition Plan" that is $0 / per month, includes 0 GB, and every additional GB is charged at $3 / GB.

If your last bill was below $80, you will save up to $5 / month.

If your last bill was above $80, you should probably switch to one of the new plans (see below) immediately to save money.

You can stay on the Transition plan until March 1. Unless you manually selected a new plan, you will be switched to our $19 / month plan at that point if you were using more than 100 MB in February.

New Plans

Our new plans are as follows:

• Free plan: $0 / month, 100 MB included, no additional GB possible.
• Tricycle: $19 / month, 6 GB included, $3.50 per additional GB
• Bicycle: $49 / month, 16 GB included, $3.20 per additional GB
• Motorcycle: $99 / month, 35 GB included, $2.85 per additional GB
• Truck: $179 / month, 70 GB included, $2.60 per additional GB
• Bulldozer: $299 / month, 125 GB included, $2.40 per additional GB
• Airplane: $499 / month, 225 GB included, $2.20 per additional GB
• Satellite: $749 / month, 375 GB included, $2.00 per additional GB
• Rocket: $999 / month, 560 GB included, $1.80 per additional GB

(Note: Storage and Thumbnail GB count as 10%, audio encoding as 25% of their actual usage.)

Unless you were paying less than $19 per month before, these new plans are generally going to reduce your monthly service costs. You can upgrade and downgrade any time.

Custom Plans

If you had a custom plan with us in the past, nothing changes for you.

Help, I'm unhappy with this!

Pricing changes are notoriously tricky to get right, and we know this one is no exception and we've probably missed a case or two.

So if you have any problem with our new pricing, just open a support ticket and we will do whatever it takes to make you happy!

Feedback

We have talked to a lot of our customers before making this change, but we can never learn enough about our customers, so feel free to provide us with any feedback you may have.

Felix Geisendörfer, co-founder

Dear Transloadit users,

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of our first unofficial NodeJS SDK.

Geoff Wilson was so kind to put it together. He has run it in production for over one month now without problems.

It supports our signature algorithmn and is also wrapped into an npm module. If you plan to integrate Transloadit with NodeJS you should definitely check it out.

For further detail, please read the project page here: Transloadit NodeJS SDK.

Kudos to Geoff for this!

Kind regards

Tim

Dear Transloadit customers,

on behalf of the entire team I would like to wish you a happy new year, health, happiness, luck, love and success! We will continue to strive to offer you the best uploading and transcoding service!

To start things off for this year, I would like to announce a small change to our jQuery plugin. Up until now the jQuery plugin would still kick in and show the upload modal even though your users did not select a file at all. This is now resolved. To not break backwards compatibility this functionality has been encapsulated into a parameter called processZeroFiles which has a default value of false.

You can read more about this on the jQuery plugin documentation page.

Stay tuned, we'll have more announcements soon!

Kind regards,

Tim