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That's helpful context. I'm happy to support an open platform that helps creators monetize. For me however, I just need a place to serve videos from.

LinuxBender 5y ago
Well along the lines of h2odragon's comment, you would have to estimate your user-base and calculate what hosting providers can give you the bandwidth you need, or find a CDN that can cache your videos but those get expensive quickly. If you have a small user-base, then just about any VPS provider will do.
- reginold 5y ago
  But I'm lazyyyyyyyy come on ;) How much does it cost to host 100 videos that get 1,000 views total per month. $1/month? While I imagine I could set this up, I want easy to use, censorship resistant video hosting for others.
  - LinuxBender 5y ago
    video hosting for others Well there's the rub. If this was just for you then yes you could get a $1/mo VM, maybe RamNode but there are cheaper ones and just write a script that generates static pages. If you want a platform that others can upload videos to then you are going to need a web application, probably PHP that has a database backend or at least a SQLite DB to map the videos files to the URL's. That could easily put you into the $20 to $40 per month VM. Then you would need something like PeerTube [1] or related software. [1] - https://joinpeertube.org/ https://joinpeertube.org/
    - reginold 5y ago
      Appreciate the thoughtful reply. Ah didn't mean to imply that there's a "platform". I meant more decentralized. A self-hosted YouTube if you will, meaning that creators don't need to do server maintenance and navigate folders, but can simply click upload and post a video to their site. May be beyond the scope of existing tools, but intuitively seems doable.
      - antasvara 5y ago
        That's what PeerTube is. You self-host an instance using their open-source code, and other users can sign up for it.
        reginold 5y ago
        Checked it out, looks good! Thanks!

LinuxBender 5y ago

Well along the lines of h2odragon's comment, you would have to estimate your user-base and calculate what hosting providers can give you the bandwidth you need, or find a CDN that can cache your videos but those get expensive quickly. If you have a small user-base, then just about any VPS provider will do.

reginold 5y ago
But I'm lazyyyyyyyy come on ;) How much does it cost to host 100 videos that get 1,000 views total per month. $1/month? While I imagine I could set this up, I want easy to use, censorship resistant video hosting for others.
- LinuxBender 5y ago
  video hosting for others Well there's the rub. If this was just for you then yes you could get a $1/mo VM, maybe RamNode but there are cheaper ones and just write a script that generates static pages. If you want a platform that others can upload videos to then you are going to need a web application, probably PHP that has a database backend or at least a SQLite DB to map the videos files to the URL's. That could easily put you into the $20 to $40 per month VM. Then you would need something like PeerTube [1] or related software. [1] - https://joinpeertube.org/ https://joinpeertube.org/
  - reginold 5y ago
    Appreciate the thoughtful reply. Ah didn't mean to imply that there's a "platform". I meant more decentralized. A self-hosted YouTube if you will, meaning that creators don't need to do server maintenance and navigate folders, but can simply click upload and post a video to their site. May be beyond the scope of existing tools, but intuitively seems doable.
    - antasvara 5y ago
      That's what PeerTube is. You self-host an instance using their open-source code, and other users can sign up for it.
      - reginold 5y ago
        Checked it out, looks good! Thanks!