Portfolio Asset Hosting

A portfolio is a performance pitch — and a hero image that takes four seconds to paint from a sluggish origin undercuts the work before anyone sees it. The usual hacks each have a flaw: committing full-resolution photos to a Git repo on GitHub Pages bloats the repo and serves from a non-CDN origin; stuffing a showreel onto a cheap VPS means you eat the bandwidth and reprovision when a post catches fire; embedding YouTube for video drags in their player chrome and recommendations. files.link is purpose-built for the assets a portfolio actually ships: high-res photography, MP4 showreels and motion pieces, case-study PDFs, 3D GLB models, and SVG logos, all served from a global CDN so the visitor in Sydney loads as fast as the one in São Paulo.

You can drag files into the dashboard, or — for agencies regenerating asset sets — drive uploads from a script via three REST calls (POST /v1/files/{folderId} → PUT the presigned URL → POST /v1/files/confirm-upload with {ids:[...]}), persist the returned CDN URLs, and drop them straight into a Next.js, Astro, Framer, or hand-rolled HTML site. The decoupling is the real win for working creatives: updating a single project image doesn't require a full site rebuild and redeploy the way a static-site-committed asset does — you replace the file and the new bytes flow through the CDN.

For an agency managing many clients, organize each client's media under its own folder, keep public-facing pieces on permanent public URLs, and put unpublished or NDA work behind private files served via signed URLs so a draft case study never leaks via a guessable path. Billing is prepaid credits debited by storage and delivery, which matters the day a piece gets shared widely: you'll see bandwidth usage rise, but there's no surprise overage invoice, and you can set a low max-storage cap in the dashboard as a guardrail.

Practical tips that keep a portfolio snappy: export photography to optimized WebP at the few widths your layout uses and reference them with srcset; compress showreels with ffmpeg before upload so a two-minute reel isn't a 400MB download; and flatten case studies to a single PDF rather than a zip of pages. files.link doesn't restrict by extension, so the same account handles every asset class your portfolio touches.