Practical notes on owning your video hosting. More guides land as the features they describe go live.
Why host videos on your own account
When a platform hosts your videos, they set the price, the player and the rules. Hosting on your own Bunny.net account means you pay storage and bandwidth at cost, keep your library whatever happens to any one tool, and can move players without moving files.
Importing a video by URL
If a video already lives somewhere - an old host, a course platform, a shared drive link - Blue Flame Media's pipeline fetches the file and uploads it into your own storage. You paste a link once; the fetching, filing, poster capture and duration read happen for you.
What signed playback actually means
A signed playback URL is a link with an expiry stamp built in. Viewers press play and never notice it; someone copying the link to share outside your site finds it stops working. It is the quiet difference between hosting videos and giving them away.
Reading your bandwidth cost
Bunny.net charges by the gigabyte, so your cost follows your real usage instead of a bundle. Blue Flame Media's usage screen shows the numbers for your own account, so a busy month is a fact you can see, not a surprise on an invoice.