Seasons of Jason
And here's what's causing my anxiety about joining a #PeerTube instance for my music stuff. I sift through and find an instance that fits my needs, head to the "About" page and see this:
HOW LONG WE PLAN TO MAINTAIN THIS INSTANCE
"Currently plan to run this instance for the next year or so at least, depending on usage and financials."
I would assist with those financials, but it still doesn't fill me with any confidence that it's going to stick around...
Seasons of Jason
@zleap Agreed as well. A valuable 2 cents, @lps.
And if I could do a one-click install on Digital Ocean or Linode, they'd have my money right now.
Paul Sutton
Agreed :)
LPS
@killyourfm What we really need to happen for #peertube is affordable hosted options, so they can be easier to set up and maintained by a community, much like #mastodon instances are becoming right now.
Or, if you prefer, treat a peertube instance like a personal space/website where users host their own content and simply federate with trusted instances to create hubs.
My 2 cents
Seasons of Jason
@chrishazfun I'm not confident in my technical chops to do that, nor do I want to spend the time managing it.
chrishazfun
@killyourfm I'd just set up a personal one at that point, it'd integrate the same right?
Seasons of Jason
@AdamBishop ? It DOES make sense...
But how does one host GBs of video data on a cheap self-hosted wordpress site without a) going broke doing it and b) providing viewers anything resembling decent download speed?
Adam Bishop
@killyourfm My thinking is that you should firstly host your own content on your own website, and then disseminate it out from there. If your external "sharing and discoverability network" goes down, accessibility to your content is always guaranteed. Syndicate out the discoverability, in-house the source of truth. Does that make any sense?
Seasons of Jason
@lps @zleap You're a hero. Thanks for this suggestion. I think I'll give this process a try!
LPS
@killyourfm @zleap This is on the right track, but still involves a few clicks;)
https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/cloudron
and cloudron.io then gives you the ability to one-click install #peertube
https://www.cloudron.io/pricing.html
https://www.cloudron.io/store/org.joinpeertube.cloudronapp.html
I can't vouch for the process, but it seems possible
If you ever do it, I would recommend NOT federating, which only means that you don't get a stream of undesirable content on your instance, but people can subscribe to you, and you can follow other creators:)
Ryuno-Ki
@killyourfm
Convince your employer to set up an instance ?
Seasons of Jason
@RyunoKi It's for personal use.
Seasons of Jason
@bashfulrobot @AdamBishop Thanks guys. I'm just gonna go create a Cloudron install on Linode, and then install their PeerTube app and see what happens. LIVING DANGEROUSLY!
bashfulrobot / Dustin Krysak
@killyourfm @AdamBishop It's kind of one or the other, especially if you have a global audience and want to look into CDNs, etc. There is a reason people offload the "video" portion to something like youtube via embedded players. I used to have to do this for a snowboard brand pre-youtube (adoption) days, and even then, the $ was not small. But with that said, I have not evaluated costs in recent history. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ryuno-Ki
Seasons of Jason
@RyunoKi It's all good! I'm exploring installing Cloudron within a Linode, then using that to one-click install PeerTube to an existing domain.
Fingers crossed...
Seasons of Jason
@lps @zleap This was SURPRISINGLY easy!
I'll have a longer report once I get it all configured.
LPS
@killyourfm @zleap best of luck, I'd love to hear how/if it works...I'm sure the rest of the #fediverse would as well:)
Ryuno-Ki
@killyourfm
Let me know how it goes!
I'm aware of Yunohost and Sandstorm in terms of Fediverse.
Personally I look into hosting within Europe (mainly because data protection levels. And the hope of not having secret agencies doing stuff on those machines).
Signed up with @Stuxhost (Netherlands) but am confused by their tiers.
So haven't progressed much here.
Guess, I'll end up with a Hetzner VPS some day.
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