entelechy
Active member
I've been embedding some videos from social media into posts, and wanted to look into the idea of downloading the video, uploading it to my server, and then displaying it locally to avoid some of my traffic leaving the site for the source.
I've downloaded a video as mp4, uploaded it to a newly created directory "Media", and wanted to add my own site to the list of accepted media sites in the BB code section by creating a new entry and template. So far I'm getting some errors, I think related to the embedding template I'm creating. But before going any further I wanted to check whether this is the ideal way to achieve this or if there is a better alternate to host videos locally.
I've downloaded a video as mp4, uploaded it to a newly created directory "Media", and wanted to add my own site to the list of accepted media sites in the BB code section by creating a new entry and template. So far I'm getting some errors, I think related to the embedding template I'm creating. But before going any further I wanted to check whether this is the ideal way to achieve this or if there is a better alternate to host videos locally.