Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App

Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• deadsuperhero@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s less expensive than you would think. Object Storage is actually really, really cheap in a lot of cases. I host a PeerTube instance, and while it does cost me money every month, the cost is decently offset by recurring donations, as well as the savings that Object Storage brings.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This. It’s getting it out of storage that’s expensive (if you’re doing the cloud thing - if doing colo, probably just then down to cost of drives after a short time).

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  • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry yes, I forgot donations.

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• Rutty@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if some form of bit torrent client may be of use here.

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  • Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Peertube uses it already, maybe this will too

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    • Rutty@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, I’ll have to check out peertube. Thanks for the information.

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• spaduf@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s worth considering a model where one might be expected to provide hosting for their own video. Certainly not necessary now but probably will be if/when video on fedi takes off

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  • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess. An average 30 sec video in Tiktok is around 10mb. So with a S3 storage. For a monthly budget of 10€, you could roughly store 500k of those videos. Taking also account the server bills (10-20€) That would be 30€ per month. For a million of those videos would be 20€ so monthly around 50€ euros. For people that really want to host one. I guess you could. But it’s definitely more expensive than something like Lemmy.

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    • adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ve not factored in egress costs. Which on Amazon can add up quite quickly.

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