Quarto course website question: where should I consider hosting visual assets (e.g., images, videos)?

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Currently, I'm using Quarto to develop a training: the course website, the (revealjs) slides, the exercises, etc. For this training, there are a large number of images and (short) videos to demonstrate processes. For the moment, all of the course content is in the course GitHub repo--that is, not only qmd and scss files, but png and mp4 files. While this arrangement appears to work so far--no GitHub LFS billing, no Git slowness problems--I'd like to explore how to host my visual assets elsewhere. After all, on my local machine, the repo folder weighs in at 1.7GB (:face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:). For videos, YouTube seems a good candidate. For images, I'm short on ideas.

Does anyone have any suggestions for file hosting services I should consider?

Here are my requirements:

  • Files available through publicly accessible link (so that their content could be loaded into HTML slides)
  • Service provides organization of logical collections like folders on a PC (e.g., videos for a lesson are grouped together, images for a lesson are grouped together, assets for English and French versions, respectively, etc.)
  • Service is free
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AMZ S3 falls just short of being free, but unless this is for a MOOC or a really large enrollment, the costs are very low (based on outbound traffic) and you can organize by bucket, an aws subdomain under your free to-set-up account, and flat or folders as suits. And really hard to beat uptime and bandwidth.

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Thanks for the wonderful suggestion!

Although still at the beginning of my research, I'd still like to add to your answer: AWS CloudFront could be (for many) a free add-on on top of S3. Where S3 stores files and makes them available from a single source, CloudFront lowers latency by distributing requested files from the single source--say, AWS S3--to edge locations nearer the devices requesting files. Basically, it's a content delivery network (CDN). See more here. If usage is of CloudFront is relatively low--less than 1TB per month, fewer than 10 million requests--then it falls into AWS' "always free" category. See more here.

As my research progresses, I'll try to update this thread in case others--or future me--wonders how to tackle this problem.

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