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What is Video Hosting?
Is Your Website Capable of Hosting Videos?
What is Video Self-hosting?

It's no secret, videos are making waves since the beginning of the digital days. Not only for personal consumption but for the use of businesses as well.

Video marketing is a powerful marketing tool that could form part of the overall digital marketing strategy.

Are you using videos to communicate your message to your audience?

If so, how do you present your videos to your targeted audience?

Have you been hosting videos on your website?

What is video hosting, anyway?

Defining Video Hosting

Video hosting is a kind of online service that allows the users to upload and play back video content.

As such, video hosting creates and enables an online video platform so that your audience can view your videos.

While any website can allow a user of uploading their videos, most often than not, the result may not be satisfying.

Even if you research around, you will find that those who attempt to do it that way, may have a 'not-so-good' experience.

That method is also known as self-hosting.

Video Self-hosting simply means uploading content, or in this case, a video file to the same hosting provider or web server that hosts your website - and where you also upload your other digital content, like photos or images.

The reality about video self-hosting is that - not all websites or web hosting providers are created alike.

And some web hosting providers cannot allow video uploads, especially if the site is on a shared server.

Among the reasons why video hosting is not ideal on this shared web environment are: limitations on server bandwidth, storage space, file size restrictions, video slow loading and a lot more.

Is there any website service provider out there that can help with at least a simple video hosting?

Explore this content: "Video Marketing: How to Access Easy Video Hosting" in our next post.