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What are some examples of applications people are running that: 1. Require 20TB of bandwidth / month 2. That bandwidth can't be shielded by Cloudflare and oth
by czhu12 2y ago
What are some examples of applications people are running that:
1. Require 20TB of bandwidth / month
2. That bandwidth can't be shielded by Cloudflare and others?
Is it like... real time video streaming? Gaming servers? I can't imagine a web app getting anywhere close to that.
I run a mid sized NFT art creation website that generates both images and GIF's (https://mintables.club https://mintables.club) and with over 100000 users at peak, it only needed about 1.5TB of bandwidth.
- ironhaven 2y agoBitTorrent seedbox. If you are apart of a private torrent tracker you may download 5tb and upload 10tb of data per month to be in good standing within that tracker’s community
- lysace 2y agoYeah, this is it.
- Filligree 2y agoI've always wondered how ratios like that are supposed to work. Surely the ratio has to be 1.0, averaged over all users.
- kiney 2y agomost trackers have some kind of bonus point system
- extraduder_ire 2y agoI think certain torrents being marked freeleech to not count against accounts' ratio is what causes the bulk of the imbalance in total uploads versus downloads. It's necessary too, to increase availability on torrents.
- Fnoord 2y agoGood thing I pay only 30 EUR a month for symmetric 1 gbit fiber. Right now with BF you can find BF deals cheaper than 2 USD a month, and then there's Usenet.
- fransje26 2y agoWhat's BF for the laymen?
- hoppyhoppy2 2y agoBlack Friday
- throwaway2037 2y agoIs this legitimate data or pirated media?
- fransje26 2y agoYes.
- Figs 2y agoPeerTube comes to mind.
- bouncycastle 2y agoblockchain nodes
- mickael-kerjean 2y agoI have 2 services that run above those figures: 1. the demo instance of my OSS software which is a bring your own storage Dropbox like UI for SFTP, S3, FTP, and every protocols imaginable: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash People tend to come in the demo to upload / download tons of stuffs 2. the docker registry for my oss stuff since I was kicked out of the docker open source program and now need to find a new place to store all the images. 10 millions downloads over the last few years, it does add up very quickly way above the 20TB limits if your image isn't super slim and try to selfhost everything
- arccy 2y agogithub's registry (ghcr.io) is the other big free one
- echoangle 2y ago> the demo instance of my OSS software which a bring your own storage Dropbox like UI for SFTP, S3, FTP, and every protocols imaginable: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash People tend to come in the demo to upload / download tons of stuffs Do you have problems with illegal content shared over your service? I wouldn’t ever offer something like this because I wouldn’t want to deal with someone uploading child porn or stuff like that.
- mickael-kerjean 2y agoNot really scared as I take action the second I hear about nasty things. The most recent events were people creating shared links pointing to FTP servers that had revenge porn and sharing those on a whacky telegram account, another annoying one is people who keep trying to brute force other people accounts on cloud providers even though there's a protection in place to throttle to 20 connection attempt per second, effectively degrading the free service for everyone else and getting me kicked off from cloud provider like the most recent one being Hostinger
- akudha 2y ago
- viraptor 2y agoThere are many data streams you may want to process that take lots of network traffic. CT logs, monitoring aggregators, web crawlers, etc. For the traffic you initiate, there's no proxying/caching you can do.
- johannes1234321 2y agoBesides needing it: Not having to fear that an attacker spamming the machine with Mail or web requests or something incurs a bug traffic bill gives better sleep at night.
- klabb3 2y ago> video streaming? Pet peeve but yes. It should not, in 2024, be considered a niche use case to deal with.. video. We’ve become accustomed to YouTube and their impossible-to-beat free hosting. But it’s really pricey to do streaming and so yes, we should expect large bandwidth being available. “Who needs X” is a question that should be reversed, instead we should ask “why not?”. When we have good affordable infra, we get cool new stuff and everyone benefits.
- nisa 2y agoStructural monitoring in engineering for example. You need high quality pictures and have lots of drone data and files need to move to hyper scaler or on premise for GPU processing. Cloudflare is not trustworthy and you don't always need to pay the "protection" fee. I.e. B2B where a day offline doesn't matter. Cloud pricing is insane compared to Hetzner with regards to storage and CPU power. If you have some Linux knowledge it's perfectly stable. Support is top notch. For 50€ per box you get 10gbe which is also nice. Not everyone needs 100% IaC like the big hyper scaler offer or geo redundancy etc.pp... even Hetzner has an API and you can even terraform their dedicated servers to some degree. It's 15 to 30 minutes vs. seconds but who cares.
- Hilift 2y agoMore people setup VPN servers these days. Spiked with the Iran protests. Wireguard makes it eas-ier. Circumventing some rules like content distribution.
- veeti 2y ago1.5TB isn't much at all but keep in mind that if a "disproportionate percentage" of your Cloudflare bandwidth is used for images they reserve the right to boot you off [1]. https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-application-services/#content-delivery-network-terms https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...