Business Level Plans
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I’ve started running my own website for posting podcasts, videos and writing articles. What I was wondering with the Business Level plan is can I upload all my videos and podcasts to my website with this plan. I want to have the videos hosted on the website itself rather than have my content hosted on other sites and have a player embedded.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Which plan you choose depends on how much storage space you require. The Premium plan at $99 per year gives you 13GB whilst with the considerably more expensive Business plan you benefit from unlimited storage.
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Maybe I’m not clear in what I’m asking for? Right now I have GoDaddy as my wordpress host and I have a limit of 64mb that can be uploaded at one time. So images are fine to upload. What I’m looking for is being able to upload large files (some files being as large as 8GB). Will transferring from GoDaddy to WordPress’s own hosting and having the Business Plan with “unlimited storage” let me upload files this large without a problem?
Thanks
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Also the actual website I’m looking for help with is chargedshot.com.
taintedkane.wordpress.com is an old blog of mine. I guess WordPress support just thought that was one I need help with.
Thanks,
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Only staff can answer your question. An 8GB file is a large file to load in one go even these days. Would you want visitors to your site to download similar sized files too? I’ve added modlook to the tag box on the right for staff to advise you, but remember it is the weekend.
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Thanks for that and I’m in no rush. The reason the files are so large is because our website creates podcasts and videos of video games. So we are going to be uploading 1080p video reaching up to over an hour in length so it varies. I’m assuming with videopress included people can change the quality from HD to SD. We can just upload videos to YouTube and embed but I would like to have some kind of control over the videos and not be at the mercy to someone else’s platform.
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I’ve left this tagged for Staff, but all the support documentation on uploads mentions a file size of 1GB regardless of plan: https://en.support.wordpress.com/space-upgrade/
You’ll also want to review these support guides on audio and podcasting: https://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/
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Thanks @justjennifer. I was looking for that first link and couldn’t find it. Perhaps I was using the wrong wording (and I see 1GB is actually a recommendation so as processors and broadband etc continues to improve that limit may change in the future?)
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Thanks for the help especially for the links. I’ve been looking around and maybe the best way for me to have videos on my site without being subject to YouTube is by using Amazon S3 or Vimeo Pro. That way I still have control over the videos and not bog down the site. Thanks again.
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@themagicrobot, which is why I didn’t remove the tag. :)
@taintedkane I’m sorry I overlooked the video aspect. The Business plan upgrade include VideoPress, which you can learn more about here. https://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/
Don’t worry about bogging down the site for media you’ve uploaded here on WordPressdotcom. If you are linking media from other sites, that is more of a problem, although WordPressdotcom uses Photon CDN to cache those media files.
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Hi there,
As the Volunteers in this thread have pointed out, the Business Plan will allow you to upload videos, and there is no limit on the number of video files you can upload. Nor do we have any bandwidth limitations, so you’ll never reach a point where you hit a cap on the amount of traffic your site can take. Having large video files won’t be a problem in terms of your site’s performance, as we have our own CDN as @justjennifer mentions.
In terms of uploads, we don’t have a hard limit that I know of, but we don’t recommend uploading files bigger than 1GB and can’t guarantee that it will work if you try to.
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