VdoCipher serves education businesses and individuals who are looking to sell their premium courses on website/app in most secure and smooth manner. A considerable portion of users are on Wordpress. They tend to use a bundle of Vdocipher plugin , some wordpress LMS plugin, LMS theme, Membership & payment plugins to complete their course video website. We thought of providing a step by step guide to do this with wordpress. Please note that this is not endorsement for any particular plugin/theme, we used them because they were decently popular and solved the purpose. Alternative option to them are also listed.…
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Top 10 WordPress Plugins For E-Learning
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AWS + CDN Infrastructure: Hosting, Streaming Details
Video Hosting & Streaming for premium use cases require a robust, scalable and secure infrastructure. I will give a brief overview of the tech stack deployed by VdoCipher in terms of Server, CDN, Encoding infrastructure to effectively ensure smoothest delivery of video content. Here are the details explained with the help of an infrastructure diagram. Upload & Storage The videos on VdoCipher can be uploaded from devices, server, video url, ftp, dropbox, already existing vimeo pro account. The uploaded videos direct go to Amazon (AWS) S3 servers. We have S3 storage locations across Asia (Singapore, Mumbai), Europe (Frankfurt), USA (North…