I am in production of a comedy/short and will want to create a website of some sort in order to post it and other work that I have done. On the website I would want to post or at least link some of my films, music videos, etc. that I have directed.

I may also want to create a section that talks about some of my cast members.

I'm pretty sure I could create a pretty cool site on my own and hotlink everything, however, I have no clue about how to get it up and running on the web.

What is the best route to take in doing this? Should I post everything to YouTube or some other video sharing site and embed the player on my site, or is there a way to create a website in which everything plays straight from it without going to some other site? And if so, how much will this cost me per month?

I don't know a lot about what my options are or what are even my best options.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

You need to get hosting and have a website made. You can embed your video files with windows and quicktime players.

do a search for web hosting services. There are many out there like GoDaddy, 1and1, and others...They will most likely have all of their pricing/services online.

And yes, you could embed your YouTube player, that would help your plays on YouTube.

Perhaps http://atomfilms.com

If you want to host your own site, I have for years used http://lunarpages.com, very reasonable cost, high bandwidth, feature rich,

Thanks everyone for the recommendations. I will look at the websites.