# Hosting and Serving Assets

Assets rendered by the [Editing API](../architecting-an-application/guidelines.md) are saved in a temporary location for
24 hours before being deleted. Before being deleted you must either download the assets and store them on your hard
drive, server or storage location.

Similarly, files uploaded and ingested via the [Ingest API](../ingesting-footage/ingestion.md) are stored for use in an
edit and are not suited for streaming or serving to customers.

An alternative is to use use one of the provided built in hosting or storage solutions integrated with Shotstack.

The built in integrations are called [Destinations](../destinations/) and includes a [Shotstack hosting and
CDN](./destinations/shotstack.md) service that is provided by default to all customers.