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Would it be possible to set up some form of CDN. I.e. a service where you could submit torrent links so that "peertubers" could pool their resources somehow, or
by rijoja 6y ago
Would it be possible to set up some form of CDN. I.e. a service where you could submit torrent links so that "peertubers" could pool their resources somehow, or if you would like to support certain user by making sure that they get the bandwidth?
So I am thinking of nodes that wouldn't actually host the websites but rather only would accept bittorrent URIs and then seeding them. To make sure that the ecosystem doesn't fail.
What would the economics behind this look like? So in short what server providers provide the best deal for just bandwidth. I suppose that this mostly would require bandwidth. The second priority would be storage space of course.
So what seems to be a potential problem with peertube is that if you put up a node and then if you get popular you might run into a bandwidth cap with your VPS. The average user probably wouldn't be interested or have the know how to do this, but I believe it would suffice that if there is a certain percentage of people who have interest in keeping peertube online it might be doable.
- imglorp 6y agoD.tube is backed by IPFS which is similar to an ephemeral CDN in this context.
- rijoja 6y agoAh really I didn't know that.
- ar0 6y agoPeerTube itself does support “video redundancy”, which allows your instance to mirror popular content from other servers, serving as a sort of CDN: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-following-instances?id=instances-redundancy https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-following-instances?id=i...
- rijoja 6y agoAll right so it seems that a precondition for peertube taking of would be that a lot of people setting up servers for video redundancy?
- webmobdev 6y ago> Would it be possible to set up some form of CDN. Could be possible with torrent seedboxes ... For example, http://dash.sonicbit.net/ http://dash.sonicbit.net/ offers 20 GB for around USD 2 / month with HD streaming of torrent ... A couple of these can be used to create some kind of CDN.
- rijoja 6y agoThat is a really good idea actually, didn't know that such services existed. Perhaps several peertubers could pool their resources and set up CDNs using seedboxes.
- errhead 5y agoPeerTube uses p2p in the browser, so something going viral means the server has minimal traffic besides matchmaking data blocks betwixt clients.