D.tube is backed by IPFS which is similar to an ephemeral CDN in this context.
Ah really I didn't know that.
PeerTube uses p2p in the browser, so something going viral means the server has minimal traffic besides matchmaking data blocks betwixt clients.
PeerTube itself does support “video redundancy”, which allows your instance to mirror popular content from other servers, serving as a sort of CDN: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-following-instances?id=i...
All right so it seems that a precondition for peertube taking of would be that a lot of people setting up servers for video redundancy?
> Would it be possible to set up some form of CDN.
Could be possible with torrent seedboxes ... For example, http://dash.sonicbit.net/ offers 20 GB for around USD 2 / month with HD streaming of torrent ... A couple of these can be used to create some kind of CDN.
So I am thinking of nodes that wouldn't actually host the websites but rather only would accept bittorrent URIs and then seeding them. To make sure that the ecosystem doesn't fail.
What would the economics behind this look like? So in short what server providers provide the best deal for just bandwidth. I suppose that this mostly would require bandwidth. The second priority would be storage space of course.
So what seems to be a potential problem with peertube is that if you put up a node and then if you get popular you might run into a bandwidth cap with your VPS. The average user probably wouldn't be interested or have the know how to do this, but I believe it would suffice that if there is a certain percentage of people who have interest in keeping peertube online it might be doable.