Video is what gobbles up that much data. They likely have friends and family streaming from their media server.
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danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
What exactly are you self-hosting that’s gobbling up that much data? I’ve been self-hosting my website for decades and haven’t used that much over all that time let alone in one month.
Most of my bandwidth consumption is from torrents and downloading Steam games.
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 6 days ago
40 TiB per month are 1.3 TiB daily. Even at 10 GiB per movie that’s 100 movies every single day. I doubt that is the reason.
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Probably just data hoarding downloading tons of content that will never get watched.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 days ago
downloading tons of content that will never be watched
Negative connotation
Archiving content
Positive connotation
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Plenty of 4k HDR videos are 50+GB each and OP could have a dozen people or more watching each day plus new downloads, online backups, seeding, etc.
I have a decent sized server with terrible upload speeds in the 15Mbps range that I share with some friends and family, and I still have 5-6 people streaming from my server almost constantly. If I had a symmetrical connection, I wouldn’t be shy about sharing it more and uncapping the remote bitrate settings and I could easily see myself hitting these numbers even though almost all my content is 720p and 1080p.
tostiman@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Seed more ;)
folkrav@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
That’s not “self hosting” related tho lol
one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I seed what you did there.
pmarcilus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago