How to Host Course Videos Using Bunny.net

Go to bunny.net and sign up. Bunny.net offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. After the trial, you add a payment method and shift to pay-as-you-go billing. Everyone gets the same features.

Navigate to Stream > Video Library and create a new library. Choose a primary storage region closest to most of your students. You can add replication regions later for a global audience, though a single region plus CDN caching is sufficient for most creators.

Drag and drop video files directly from your computer. Bunny.net accepts MP4, MOV, and most standard formats. The system automatically transcodes into multiple resolutions (360p through 1080p). Wait until transcoding shows "Completed" before embedding.

In your library's Player settings, set the accent color to match your course branding, enable playback speed controls (students appreciate these), and toggle autoplay behavior. The defaults work well for most courses.

This protects your paid content. In your Video Library's security settings, find Allowed Referers and add your course platform's domain. The video will only play when embedded on pages from those domains. If someone copies the embed code to a different website, it won't load.

Click any video, select Embed, and copy the iframe code. Paste it into your lesson editor in Ruzuku or any platform with an HTML or embed field. The video streams from Bunny's CDN — your students get the same experience as any other hosted video.

Set up one collection per course module before you start uploading. When you have 40 or 50 lesson videos, a flat list becomes unmanageable. Starting organized saves you from reorganizing later.

For higher-value courses ($500+ certifications), Bunny.net offers URL token authentication that generates time-limited signed URLs. It requires a bit more setup but adds a meaningful layer of protection for premium content.

Pay-as-you-go pricing is great when traffic is predictable, but a launch week with 500 students all watching at once can push your bill higher than expected. Check the dashboard to get a baseline. For most course creators, even a busy month rarely exceeds $10-15.

You're working with a CDN dashboard designed for developers, not a consumer video platform. The terminology (pull zones, storage zones, referer headers) can feel unfamiliar. Everything in this guide is doable without coding knowledge, but the interface isn't as intuitive as Vimeo.

You can see total views and bandwidth per video, but you won't get Vimeo-style engagement graphs showing where viewers drop off. Most course platforms (including Ruzuku) provide their own completion tracking, but you lose the video-level heatmap.

Pay-as-you-go billing, while almost always cheaper, can feel unpredictable compared to fixed monthly costs. In practice, the usage-based cost is so low that even significant growth rarely produces a surprising bill — but if predictable budgeting matters more than absolute cost, that's worth considering.