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   Steven Hilton (mshiltonj@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:17:21 JST Steven Hilton

   How do #peertube costs work? What if Taylor Swift signs up to a peertube instance, drops her hot new video there, and it gets 200 MILLION views. What happens? How much it that going to cost in #cdn #bandwidth? *WHO* is it going to cost? Is this viable? Does an instance admin shut that account or post down to avoid getting bankrupted?

   For now, let's ignore the idea that taylor should set up her own instance. This is a contrived example.

   #fediverse #mastodon #activitypub

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     Cadu Silva‌:laUrsa: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:17:21 JST Cadu Silva‌:laUrsa:

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     @mshiltonj for what I know, the most expensive part of hosting a Peertube instance is storage.

     There are servers like Backblaze charging US$ 0,006/GB with free egress up to 3x the average total stored or via CDN partners.

     But egress, AFAIK, is not much of an issue with Peertube as they implement a P2P approach that every user watching a video can become a source to another user instead of the main server.

     This is cool.