NON techsavvy guy needs help

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    johnhpatrickyahoocom · Member ·

    I have a domain name and 2TB of storage on interserver, but don’t have the HTML skills to build a website. I took their advice and built one on your service. How do I use my interserver storage to put large music video files of me singing, on my wordpress website?

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Did Interserver recommend you use WordPress, or WordPress.com? They’re not the same thing :)

    WordPress.com is a hosting provider, like Interserver, so what you have at the moment is your video files hosted with them, but your site hosted with us. If that’s what you want, then it’s fine, but I just want to make you aware of the alternative option, which is to install the open source WordPress software on Interserver’s servers on your hosting plan, which would mean you have everything in one place.

    That said, if you want to host your site with us, to use your videos make sure that they’re available on the remote server at a public URL. So it would be something like https://domain-where-the-file-is-hosted/filename.mp4

    To check if you have the right URL, open an incognito browser window, and paste in the URL. If the video starts playing in your browser, you have the right URL.

    Copy that URL, and paste it directly into a new line in the post/page editor on your site. That should automatically select the embed block. In the editor you’ll see something like this:

    [video src="https://domain-where-the-file-is-hosted/filename.mp4" /]

    If you then preview/publish the post, the video will appear playable in the post itself.

    A word of caution, though: in general hosting media files for your site remotely like this is risky – should your server at Interserver go down for any reason, or should the link for a file on that end change, or the domain you use to access the files there expire, etc., the videos will also instantly disappear from your site. Generally it’s safer to upload media files to your site’s media library directly, so they live on the same server as your site.

    Which is why, in this case, hosting WordPress yourself on your existing hosting plan with Interserver might be the better option here. But that’s completely up to you.

    Let me know if you have any questions about this :)

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