I am hosting HLS videos on DigitalOcean Spaces for my video content. Where & how do you host your videos?

I ran a virtual event recently, the JOMLAUNCH.Asia. And I had some Indiehackers sharing their stories, ie, Kyle Gawley (@kylegawley), Asep Bagja (@asepbagja), Fajar Siddiq (@fajarsiddiq), Ryzal Yusoff (@ryzalyusoff), Takuya Matsuyama (@craftzdog) and Warren Leow as speakers. Amazing sharing... yeah, truly.

But anyway, I want to share about my video workflow.

I am converting the videos into HLS with FFMpeg, and then host them on Digital Ocean Spaces. And then I will probably use a player like JWPlayer on our website to allow the videos to be watched. The video will probably use an expiring link to the video files using the Spaces API with the Signature Key, which is dynamically generated based on your session and ACL role. So the video is only watchable within the next 4 hours, for example.

Of course when you login again, the link will have a new signature key to Spaces and you have another 4 hours.

So the videos can't be accessed if you are not logged in to the site. ;)

Yeah ... maybe a bit too much for some. Just sharing my setup. I hope to hear yours too.

If you use videos for online course or anything, how and where do you host them?