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How to host your own Videos on WordPress

Want to Host your own Videos on WordPress?

We think the quick answer is an Amazon CloudFront or S3 scalable storage.  Here’s the deal:  you have made these great videos that are worth money,  they help people achieve something awesome but you don’t know where to put them.  If you put them on You Tube, everyone gets them.  If you put them on screencast, they are a little bit more hidden, but still, if someone is clever enough, they can figure out how to find the URL.  The trouble is your WordPress needs to control the distribution of the video and hence needs to test the credentials, that is the login permissions, of the user to make sure they have paid for and deserve the videos before the URL or address for the videos is handed out.   That is a pretty sophisticated web transaction and outside of what WordPress does.

Amazon supports a private handshake (You Tube and Screencast do not). The solution is to get a free or cheap Amazon S3 account, put your videos there and code your WordPress site to access those videos.

Below are a few sites that explain how to setup  Amazon and WordPress video hosting.  If you still feel uncomfortable setting up your own own hosting, we can help. We can establish an Amazon S3 account for you and setup the permission for embedding onto your site.   Or, we can do the hosting for you.  To get  support for the hosting of private videos add this package to your cart.  We will contact you and work with you on your time to get you up and running.  We guarantee we will save you time and help train you to get set up and serving those videos.  You focus on making the videos, we will focus on distributing them.

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