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Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Post by martin_a »

worldofmatthew wrote: post #3
viraptor wrote: post #2

There's quite a few tech people using peertube as either the only or an alternative for hosting. You still need to host the original, but if people watch your stuff, maybe you'll save some bandwidth on the p2p distribution.

Peertube is often very hard to load within MPV and you are exposing all of the visitors IPs to each other.

> you are exposing all of the visitors IPs to each other.

For whom it may concern: This would most likely be a violation of the GDPR for users from Europe. You'll have to state this in a cookie notice if you can't change it.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Post by Apreche »

Do you count using a cloud provider as hosting your own?

The most basic pipeline for doing it is going to look something like this:

1) Upload the original video to a storage bucket.

2) Have some compute service transcode the video file to create other renditions.

3) Store those renditions in a different storage bucket.

4) Put a CDN service in front of the transcoded renditions.

Get ready for a nice bandwidth bill if anyone actually watches your videos!

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Post by robertlagrant »

Apreche wrote: post #22

Do you count using a cloud provider as hosting your own? The most basic pipeline for doing it is going to look something like this: 1) Upload the original video to a storage bucket. 2) Have some compute service transcode the video file to create other renditions. 3) Store those renditions in a different storage bucket. 4) Put a CDN service in front of the transcoded renditions. Get ready for a nice bandwidth bill if…

Using Cloudflare is one option - sample pricing[0]:

Streaming a library of 500 GB of HD videos over the course of one month with approximately 72,000 minutes of viewing time to a global market.

Total cost: $78.00/month

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/cloudflare-stream

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Post by Tepix »

nxbp wrote: post #5

Just have to nitpick: videos. Plurals don't have an apostrophe.

OP might be dutch.

In dutch, nouns that end in the single vowels '–a', '-i', '-o', '-u', '-y' get a "-'s" when forming the plural. The apostrophe is added to keep the long single vowel at the end long.

That's why dutch speakers frequently make this mistake.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Post by worldofmatthew »

Apreche wrote: post #22

Do you count using a cloud provider as hosting your own? The most basic pipeline for doing it is going to look something like this: 1) Upload the original video to a storage bucket. 2) Have some compute service transcode the video file to create other renditions. 3) Store those renditions in a different storage bucket. 4) Put a CDN service in front of the transcoded renditions. Get ready for a nice bandwidth bill if…

I have a VPS with 1Gbit 95% on a 10Gbit port.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Post by jeena »

Hi, yes, I'm doing it on https://tube.jeena.net by using PeerTube. I've been hosting it on a NUC, first in my kitchen in Sweden, then at my parents house in Germany and now I'm in the process to move the NUC to my home office in South Korea. I'm bridging the time by having moved the whole installation to a server hosted by Hetzner, but it's too expensive in my opinion, and the NUC doesn't use so much power and is fast enough. I even made a video about my reasoning: Sustainable Private Cloud Server - Environment and Cost - https://tube.jeena.net/w/tYbrbqBMkexTwXTrjsN14a

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Post by hollywood_court »

I’m not sure if this will help you much, but I followed this tutorial a few weeks ago to build what I believe you’re describing. It uses a MERN stack to build a “YouTube Clone.”

I am in no way affiliated with its this creator.

https://youtu.be/CCF-xV3RSSs

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