Practical notes on owning your video hosting. More guides land as the features they describe go live.
Why own your video home
When a social platform hosts your videos, it sets the rules, shows rivals' videos next to yours and keeps the viewers. Blue Flame Media gives you your own branded player, pages and numbers on managed storage included with your plan, so every view works for you.
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 files it in your library. 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 storage use
Your plan includes managed storage. The Hosting screen shows how much you have used and what is left, so you can add Cloud Reserve before you run short, never as a surprise.