It’s not an outlandish amount, but for instance I have my own VPS where I host a variety of services, and it still has under 1TB storage. Most hobbyists who rent a VPS would have less storage than that.
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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoThat’s not an outlandish amount of storage. You can get more than that for $200.
communism@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Anivia@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Why rent? If you have fiber and aren’t behind CGNAT you can host from your home
communism@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
I rent because of government surveillance; I want my server in a different country.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah anyone who runs a node is laughing at those numbers
fishos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My Jellyfin is 6 times that… And my PC is double that… Seriously, this person thinks 5TB is a lot? Don’t we have SD Cards/Flash Drives this big now? I’d be WAY more concerned about the bandwidth requirements.
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
its still not a small amount of storage. and no, there’s still not really sd cards or flash drives bigger than 1tb, but obviously that would never suffice as server storage. plus, if you’re hosting a node you’d want at least 4 or 5 times that storage to use a raid 6 array + at least one onsite backup, and one off-site backup.
now we’re talking thousands of dollars in equipment just for storage, not the actual server itself, internet connection, etc.
fishos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You literally just described my Jellyfin, minus the raid because I don’t feel like setting it up. Think all in all I’m down about $1200 for it. Not thousands. You do realized a 12TB NAS drive is $200, right? Only reason my build cost as much is because I have a few 2TB ssds in there which were just leftovers from the PC anyways. I could’ve done it all for $500.
Off-site backup isn’t required. Nice, but not required at all. In the literal sense, you don’t need it. It’s good to have, but an extra.
So yeah, 5TB, literally the only metric I was discussing, isn’t much. Maybe in the future the person should say all the nuance and not “5TB is unreasonable for the average person”. It’s not. Plain and simple.
73ms@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
your home computers would probably not have the reliability or the disk performance required to run it.
73ms@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
it keeps constantly growing by terabytes and needs to be fast too though. Means you’re going to pay more than most private individuals are able to long-term just for the privilege of running that one component.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 days ago
That’s just if you want a complete copy. You can choose to store only parts of it, and retrieve what’s missing from other relay servers when you need it.
73ms@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
seems to be a fairly recent development that isn’t really documented much for now (not that running relays and some other components of the network is that well documented in general). Of course doing it that way also doesn’t help with how centralized the whole thing is…
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 days ago
It’s always been possible with the use of content addressing, it’s just that they’ve been spending most time building out core services and are now focusing on making it cheaper to run.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At the rate it’s growing, it’s going to get outlandish very quickly.