![]() ![]() Self-hosting means that you upload the video file to the same web server where your WordPress site is hosted, using the built-in file uploader in WordPress… the same way you might upload a photo or image to your site. But the video itself is actually being streamed from the video host’s servers, instead of the web server where your WordPress site is hosted. The video will appear on your site, wherever you pasted the URL. ![]() Then, you copy the URL to the video and paste it into a post or page on your own WordPress site. First, you upload your video file to a third-party video hosting service like YouTube, Vimeo, or Wistia. Self-Hosting VideoĮmbedding a video is essentially a two-step process. Before we dive into the technical reasons why you should never host your own videos, let me take a second to explain the difference between embedding video, as opposed to uploading it to your WordPress server.
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