cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/75057
I may make it even bigger if no users join the server
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I don’t know anything about Peertube. What does this meme mean?
Basically, you can set up your PeerTube server to mirror videos from your federated network according to algorithms (and also by adding videos manually).
PeerTube uses the WebTorrent protocol, so that a video that gets super popular isn’t as likely to crash the server it’s on or essentially DDOS it. In this case, my server has a significant portion of HDD space set aside for some servers I trust to have quality content, so that recent videos, trending videos and their overall most watched videos are mirrored by mine (rotating them in and out automatically). The server will be a peer seeding the video while it is watched anywhere, thus reducing the load on the original server, and making the video more resilient against uptime failure of the original server.
Neat. I’ve got an extra 10TB lying around, got any good setup documentation/guides you could reccomend?
See my comment to kayzeekayzee, I don’t think local options exist - but I am also relatively new myself - so maybe someone else knows something.
But if you have those 10TB somewhere you can put behind a domain name and server installation - This is the official documentation.
Of note: The part in the config file (usually /var/www/peertube/config/production.yaml) looks like this (my current config as an example)
redundancy: videos: check_interval: '15 minutes' # How often you want to check new videos to cache strategies: # Just uncomment strategies you want - size: '50GB' # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances) min_lifetime: '48 hours' strategy: 'most-views' # Cache videos that have the most views - size: '150GB' # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances) min_lifetime: '48 hours' strategy: 'trending' # Cache trending videos - size: '100GB' # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances) min_lifetime: '48 hours' strategy: 'recently-added' # Cache recently added videos min_views: 10 # Having at least x views
That’s really cool! Are there any resources available for anyone wanting to set that up themselves?
As far as I know, no options exist for something like a local PeerTube instance without a proper server, without also having a domain name, so doing it locally is a bit complicated.
I’d guess the closest would be to have tabs open with videos you want to mirror, so you are a peer via webtorrent for those, but that is clunky, and I am unsure how well it would even work without having the tabs active.
But I am relatively new to this as well, so maybe someone else has some info I am lacking right now.