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> Any competitor will have the same problems as Youtube does. PeerTube distributes the load among many independent servers, which can be even run by individual
by fsflover 3y ago
> Any competitor will have the same problems as Youtube does.
PeerTube distributes the load among many independent servers, which can be even run by individuals. So no, not every competitor will have the same problems.
- krapp 3y agoSo the cost is borne by users' power bills, data rates and available bandwidth. If PeerTube usage were scaled to the level of Youtube (making it a competitor) that would absolutely turn into a problem.
- fsflover 3y agoDepends on the number of servers. Each of them can be very small.
- Saris 3y agoWhat about someone who gets several million views per video they upload? You would need one hell of a peertube instance with a great CDN to manage that so people all over the world can watch it without constant buffering. Peertube technically has P2P, but these days with strict NAT or CGNAT being common good luck getting any kind of P2P connection going for the majority of people. Plus a lot of people on both home and mobile connections have very restrictive data caps.
- fsflover 3y ago> You would need one hell of a peertube instance with a great CDN to manage that so people all over the world Peertube relies on peer-to-peer data exchange, so the server loads are much lower than you imply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533454
- Saris 3y agoYeah I addressed that in my comment too. The link you sent doesn't show any data that I can see? It would be neat to see someone actually test peertube under heavy load with data to back it up.
- fsflover 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444491