IPFS Self Hosting Project for my videos, Please advise if able!!

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My Issue:

So when I began here on Steemit.com, my main reason was Dtube as an alternative to solely hosting my tech videos on Youtube. In addition to Steemit/Dtube, I host my videos on Youtube, Bitchute, as well as LBRY.
However, I was unaware that my videos would only last for a single week without consistent up votes to "pay" for the videos life on Steem's infrastructure.

IPFS:

It just so happens that I am a Linux user as well as server admin, and I have experimented with IPFS(Steemit's video storage system) prior to joining this community.

Since my channel is focused on tech/Linux, and some of videos are tutorials I require that they are available freely for longer than just 7 days, and as a fairly small channel I am probably unable to draw in enough Steem power to pay their stay indefinitely.

My Solution & Request For Help:

I plan to host my own IPFS instance on a Linux server inside of a VM or even possibly a Docker container within a VM.
I ask that anyone who has experience please advise me on how I can upload my videos to Steem, while also hosting them on my own IPFS node. Can I re-address the videos that are already up?

Even if you are simply aware of an article with this process described, please share this in a comment/response.
As an added benefit, I was planning to do a video tutorial about the design of IPFS, as well as how to set it up on a Linux server. Now I will add this process to that tutorial IF I can accomplish this.

Thanks in advance, and I'd really appreciate any help on this guys.

IPFS Self Hosting Project for my videos, Please advise if able!! | Ecency