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Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021)

20 points by app4soft 4y ago

app4soft 4y ago
Thread on Twitter via Nitter:[0] [0] https://nitter.net/wezm/status/1430670384362184704#m https://nitter.net/wezm/status/1430670384362184704#m
- AustinDev 4y ago
  'Tweet not found.'
  - wezm 4y ago
    Nitter seems broken at the moment. My original tweet https://twitter.com/wezm/status/1430670384362184704 https://twitter.com/wezm/status/1430670384362184704
    - app4soft 4y ago
      > Nitter seems broken at the moment. nitter.net is an official Nitter instance (and most overloaded) known to be rate limited. But report to devs to check if there is other case or bug.[0] Meanwhile try another Nitter instance.[1,2] [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances [2] https://twiiit.com/ https://twiiit.com/ (redirecting proxy for Nitter instances)
DoItToMe81 4y ago
2.5 TB isn't very much in a month, especially not for a proxy of a much bigger site. Vultr's bandwidth is notoriously tight for the price, too. I feel like this is the wrong service for that type of host.
- hampereddustbin 4y ago
  Cloud pricing for bandwidth is really limiting for a lot of applications. For comparison you can get a 1gbit/s line with your server on OVH EU for about $100/mo, which you could utilize for a theoretical ~321TiB/mo total transferred
- wezm 4y ago
  It's a lot more than my little personal server usually uses in a month though.
- technion 4y ago
  It's sure a cost for someone used to working with aws though.
- sli 4y ago
  Vultr wants me to complete a captcha just to view their website, which tells me an awful lot about them already.
jacooper 4y ago
Try hosting a piped(YouTube) instance :) Also just use Hetzner, Vultur pricing is outrageous
- DoItToMe81 4y ago
  BuyVM offers a plan comparable to their 12 dollar one for 7 dollars, and you get at least 16 TB of monthly bandwidth. I say 'at least' because they do not cut you off, and throttling is manually done and a last resort.
  - jacooper 4y ago
    From a quick visit, Hetzner's advantage is ram size. For 9.70€ you get 8gb on Hetzner but only 4Gb on the 15$ plan on BuyVM.
arcastroe 4y ago
> Nitter doesn’t have a robots.txt by default so the first thing I did was fork it and add one that blocked all robots. Glad to see this has been resolved since then, on the official repository https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/631 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/631 I am considering running a public instance for personal use and this was one of my concerns as well

20 points by app4soft 4y ago

Thread on Twitter via Nitter:[0] [0] https://nitter.net/wezm/status/1430670384362184704#m https://nitter.net/wezm/status/1430670384362184704#m

AustinDev 4y ago
'Tweet not found.'
- wezm 4y ago
  Nitter seems broken at the moment. My original tweet https://twitter.com/wezm/status/1430670384362184704 https://twitter.com/wezm/status/1430670384362184704
  - app4soft 4y ago
    > Nitter seems broken at the moment. nitter.net is an official Nitter instance (and most overloaded) known to be rate limited. But report to devs to check if there is other case or bug.[0] Meanwhile try another Nitter instance.[1,2] [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances [2] https://twiiit.com/ https://twiiit.com/ (redirecting proxy for Nitter instances)

DoItToMe81 4y ago

2.5 TB isn't very much in a month, especially not for a proxy of a much bigger site. Vultr's bandwidth is notoriously tight for the price, too. I feel like this is the wrong service for that type of host.

hampereddustbin 4y ago
Cloud pricing for bandwidth is really limiting for a lot of applications. For comparison you can get a 1gbit/s line with your server on OVH EU for about $100/mo, which you could utilize for a theoretical ~321TiB/mo total transferred
wezm 4y ago
It's a lot more than my little personal server usually uses in a month though.
technion 4y ago
It's sure a cost for someone used to working with aws though.
sli 4y ago
Vultr wants me to complete a captcha just to view their website, which tells me an awful lot about them already.

jacooper 4y ago

Try hosting a piped(YouTube) instance :) Also just use Hetzner, Vultur pricing is outrageous

DoItToMe81 4y ago
BuyVM offers a plan comparable to their 12 dollar one for 7 dollars, and you get at least 16 TB of monthly bandwidth. I say 'at least' because they do not cut you off, and throttling is manually done and a last resort.
- jacooper 4y ago
  From a quick visit, Hetzner's advantage is ram size. For 9.70€ you get 8gb on Hetzner but only 4Gb on the 15$ plan on BuyVM.

arcastroe 4y ago

> Nitter doesn’t have a robots.txt by default so the first thing I did was fork it and add one that blocked all robots. Glad to see this has been resolved since then, on the official repository https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/631 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/631 I am considering running a public instance for personal use and this was one of my concerns as well