Pro Blogger David Risley talks about where a blogger should host their videos and  offers 3 routes: Free Hosting, Self Hosting or Remote Hosting

Essentially, you have three viable options:

1. Host your video on one of the many video sites (i.e. Youtube) and simply embed into your blog.
2. Host your video on your own server and embed onto your blog locally.
3. Host your video elsewhere, but a place where you have total control.

Of the 3 choices, David really hits the nail on the head when he says ‘Self hosting’ is not a really a viable option

I totally agree: Hosting media on your own blog server is not a good fit. High bandwidth material like video, eats your resources and you  almost reach the point of not wanting the post to be successful!

Too many viewers and you are into ‘overage’ fees.. or just as bad …your host shuts you down!

For me, I see putting media on remote hosting as giving the same freedom to the blogger as Content Management Systems did for designers. Splitting off the media gives you better control.

For the 3rd option the Amazon S3 and eZs3 combo are suggested.

It’s pretty cool to be mentioned on the same page as the big brands