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Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Reducing the weight of our footer. Most computer users know to unzip the file and get the content from inside. Option 2: Most browsers have a settings where it lets the users specify if they want to force download a certain type of files for example: a pdf file.
You can instruct your users to use this option if you think it will help them again this is common knowledge and most internet users know this.
Option 3: You can add the following lines of code in your. If you are storing your files to your amazon S3 account instead of your server then do the following to force a download on those files. Set the correct headers on your files in Amazon S3 in order to force the browser to download rather than opening the file. Set these:. The sample excerpts are stored at my web site, and I DO want those to play in the browser via the plugin mp3-jplayer for WordPress.
Thank you! I figured out what to add based on option 3 above. It was an AAC. I left that unchanged too. I then ran a test purchase in the PayPal Sandbox, and the files downloaded instead of loading in the browser, which they had previously done.
Previously, when the audio file loaded in the browser instead of downloading , the URL in the address bar included my S3 Access Key ID — not simply the encrypted link. No, that is not a security risk. You are only seeing the public key. The secret key is used to encrypt the expiration information. Think of it like Google Drive or Dropbox, except way more powerful - and useful for businesses looking to store data in the cloud and then access and manipulate that data across different websites and servers and systems.
It lets you do a lot of really cool stuff with the data you store there. But this is not an article for developers. There is a ton of technical documentation for that. T his article is more about how and why it's relevant and useful for you - if you're a blogger, entrepreneur, digital marketer, content creator, podcaster, course creator, eBook author, Audiobook creator, etc - and you create digital content as part of your free content marketing, for your lead-magnets email bribe , bonus content as well as paid content for your patrons, subscribers, and members of your membership site or online course.
This article is not about helping you write a plugin or software using S3, but to help you understand - as a digital creator - how and why to use S3 to store and securely deliver the content that you're creating, from S3 into your own WordPress website. In an earlier section, I wrote about why you should not store your video, audio, pdf, zip, doc and other files on your own web host.
Now the next question is, if you store all of your files on S3, then you'll have a whole new set of questions and challenges, like And that's where a plugin like S3MediaVault. Here's the basic idea behind how this works:.
Per Wikipedia :. The goal is to provide high availability and high performance by distributing the service spatially relative to end-users. CDNs came into existence in the late s as a means for alleviating the performance bottlenecks of the Internet, even as the Internet was starting to become a mission-critical medium for people and enterprises. Since then, CDNs have grown to serve a large portion of the Internet content today, including web objects text, graphics and scripts , downloadable objects media files, software, documents , applications e-commerce, portals , live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social media sites.
CDNs are a layer in the internet ecosystem. Content owners such as media companies and e-commerce vendors pay CDN operators to deliver their content to their end users.
See the 2nd image in the next section below comparing the use of S3 by itself, vs. Short answer: No, you don't have to use both. But it is definitely recommended that you use both together for the best scalability and performance. Amazon S3 by itself - along with a plugin like S3MediaVault - is good enough for data storage and secure delivery for most folks just getting started.
And that kind of scalability and performance does become important as your website, grows, along with the number of visitors, free subscribers and paying members. The above image shows the drop-down of locations that you have to choose from when creating your bucket. So S3 makes you choose that location before you can create a bucket, and only then you can upload files to that bucket. Virginia US West N. So to begin with, you would create a S3 bucket in the region closest to where most of your audience is.
However, with an online business, it is not always easy to predict where your audience is going to come from, let alone predicting where your true fans are located. And the farther they are from the S3 data center in Ohio in the United States, then the longer even if just a bit it will take for the media to load in their browser. Obviously we're talking about all other things being equal and standardized, like speed of computer, and internet access etc. So if they're in the UK, then the data is served to them from the data center closest to them in the UK, even though the source file is in the Ohio data center.
And that file is cached in the local "edge" network the very first time, and from that point, all UK visitors will get the file quickly delivered from their nearest edge location. The image above on the left shows you how the users from different countries will be accessing your files if you are just using Amazon S3 alone.
And the image on the right shows you how your media is accessed by those same users from those same locations, except, this time you have CloudFront enabled. So Amazon CloudFront is an additional layer that sits on top of your Amazon S3 bucket, and speeds up the delivery of the media in your S3 bucket. The image on the left above, shows that your Amazon S3 bucket is a single location stored in the cloud, and when visitors to your website from all over the world try to access a video, audio, pdf or other media stored in that S3 bucket, they are still served those files from that one central location.
And from that point onwards, every US person who tries to access that video, will be served that video from the local cloud, and not from the S3 bucket. A CDN is basically a cloud "network". So this network still needs the files to be stored somewhere, preferably on a high-availability "hard-disk in the cloud".
And that's what S3 is. And to give you a quick peek behind what's involved, creating true-streaming videos involves the use of a secure and scalable "hard disk in the cloud" - aka, Amazon S3. Then you need to convert this "regular" video explained further below into a "stream". So a regular mp4 video file is chopped up into smaller "segments" and delivered piece-by-piece, in real-time. And to do this, you need a cloud-based service that will do this "chopping up" - aka Amazon MediaConvert.
So you basically need S3, CloudFront and MediaConvert in order to store, create and securely deliver a streaming video. And S3MediaVault. For you, it's as simple as selecting a video file from your WordPress Admin panel the S3MediaVault settings page , click on a link that says "Prepare for Streaming", then S3MediaVault will create a streaming video player for that file. Just embed the code on any page on your WordPress site, and you're done.
But progressive downloads can increase the costs for the video service, and here's how: As soon as the viewer hits "Play" on the video, the video starts to download to their computer in whatever the "temp" folder of the browser is, where it stores all temporary internet files. Now even if the viewer hit "Pause" right after they hit "Play", the video will still continue to download, until it is fully downloaded. So if it's a big file, then the entire file of tens or hundreds of MB's of data is downloaded to their device first, whether it's their computer or their mobile device.
And regardless of whether they end up watching 1 minute of the video, or just a few minutes, or even a fraction of the video, the video was downloaded in full to their device. That means, the video provider in this case, you, and your S3 account ended up delivering the entire video, even though they may or may not watch it, or only watch it partially. So more bandwidth cost for you, the provider.
And for the viewer as well, their internet bandwidth is used to download the full video, even though they may or may not watch it, or only watch it partially. So more bandwidth cost for your viewer as well. And especially more so if they're on a mobile device and are using their data and have a limited data plan. And that's where "Streaming Video" is much more beneficial to everyone involved - well, almost to everyone involved, which I'll explain in a minute.
And that's because with streaming video, the video is delivered as a "watch as you go" stream of data.
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