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You certainly can host your own videos, but not for the cost, ease, and exposure YouTube offers.

• wvenable 7y ago
  Cost, ease, and exposure that you don't pay for either.
• xwdv 7y ago
  All those things are overrated, putting up some videos on YouTube is no guarantee of an audience. You still have promotional work to do. And it’s not nearly as expensive to host videos now compared to the past.
  • leesalminen 7y ago
    I’ve been very happy with Cloudflare Stream lately. We stream ~2-3k mins/day and have never had a complaint.
    • buzzerbetrayed 7y ago
      Unfortunately Cloudflare has a history of censoring content as well though.
      • ripdog 7y ago
        What? That... one time they took down a site? That site which claimed it was endorsed by cloudflare? One incident isn't enough to become a 'history', and their actions were perfectly justified.
        • buzzerbetrayed 7y ago
          Fair point. I thought I remembered more incidents than the one. But looking in to it more I don’t see any. I should have done more research before trusting my faulty memory.
  • manigandham 7y ago
    Hosting and serving video is a real barrier to uploading content for the vast majority. Also people don’t want to go to random sites for video, they like YouTube itself. Most video is discovered and watched entirely within, not from external links.