Stream Archive Hosting

Stream archive hosting is the back half of a streaming workflow: the broadcast ends, and the recording becomes the asset worth keeping. files.link is built for exactly that — take the finished VOD you exported from Twitch, YouTube Live, OBS-to-RTMP, or a managed ingest service, and host that authorized stream archive on a permanent URL with global CDN delivery. It is not a live ingest endpoint or a transcoding pipeline; it is the durable home for the recording after the stream ends.

The upload path stays scriptable: POST /v1/files/{folderId} to get a presigned URL and id, PUT the recording bytes directly to storage, then POST /v1/files/confirm-upload with {ids:[...]}. Auth is your raw API key, so a post-stream hook can auto-host every broadcast the moment encoding finishes — turning stream archive hosting into one curl in your pipeline instead of a manual upload.

The reason to move stream archives off the streaming platform is cost and permanence. Twitch removes most VODs within 14 to 60 days; a copy hosted here stays until you delete it. Per-minute video products (Mux-style) meter every minute stored and every minute delivered, which punishes a deep livestream archive that nobody watches all at once. files.link bills prepaid credits against storage and bandwidth with no per-minute meter, and replays stream from a nearby CDN edge.

Keep this week's busy replays on the standard tier for instant playback, then move rarely-watched back catalog to the cold storage tier (note its minimum retention) to shrink the bill on archives nobody is actively watching.

This page is the hosting-and-delivery layer, not a player or an encoder. For adaptive quality switching, transcode to HLS/DASH with ffmpeg first and upload the playlist and segments as ordinary files; for a single progressive MP4 replay, upload it once and embed the URL. The closely related live stream archive page covers the same workflow from the broadcast angle, VOD archive storage frames it as general at-rest storage for any replay source, and live stream replay storage focuses on replay links for webinars, events, and course videos — pick whichever matches how you search.

A word on scope and honesty. files.link is neutral storage infrastructure for recordings you own or are authorized to keep — your own broadcasts, your team's events, talks and clips you hold the rights to. It is not the old StreamArchive-style scraper that grabbed other broadcasters' deleted VODs without consent, it has no connection to any third-party streamarchive or CastCache service, and it never pulls streams from any platform on your behalf.

You export the finished file yourself; files.link gives that authorized stream archive a permanent, CDN-backed home. If you arrived from a defunct streamarchive tool looking for a real place to host stream archives you have rights to, that hosting job is exactly what this page describes.