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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by app4soft on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @08:25PM (#33795743)
Thread on Twitter via Nitter:[0]

[0] https://nitter.net/wezm/status/1430670384362184704#m

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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by AustinDev on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @09:47PM (#33796393)
'Tweet not found.'
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by wezm on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @10:16PM (#33796587)
Nitter seems broken at the moment. My original tweet https://twitter.com/wezm/status/1430670384362184704
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by app4soft on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:32AM (#33797349)
> Nitter seems broken at the moment.

nitter.net is an official Nitter instance (and most overloaded) known to be rate limited. But report to devs to check if there is other case or bug.[0]

Meanwhile try another Nitter instance.[1,2]

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

[2] https://twiiit.com/ (redirecting proxy for Nitter instances)

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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by DoItToMe81 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:11AM (#33797221)
2.5 TB isn't very much in a month, especially not for a proxy of a much bigger site. Vultr's bandwidth is notoriously tight for the price, too. I feel like this is the wrong service for that type of host.
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by hampereddustbin on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:44AM (#33797403)
Cloud pricing for bandwidth is really limiting for a lot of applications. For comparison you can get a 1gbit/s line with your server on OVH EU for about $100/mo, which you could utilize for a theoretical ~321TiB/mo total transferred
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by wezm on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:19AM (#33797596)
It's a lot more than my little personal server usually uses in a month though.
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by technion on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:04AM (#33797798)
It's sure a cost for someone used to working with aws though.
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by sli on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:32AM (#33797968)
Vultr wants me to complete a captcha just to view their website, which tells me an awful lot about them already.
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by jacooper on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @08:17AM (#33800225)
Try hosting a piped(YouTube) instance :) Also just use Hetzner, Vultur pricing is outrageous
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by DoItToMe81 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @08:46AM (#33800648)
BuyVM offers a plan comparable to their 12 dollar one for 7 dollars, and you get at least 16 TB of monthly bandwidth. I say 'at least' because they do not cut you off, and throttling is manually done and a last resort.
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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by jacooper on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:20PM (#33820267)
From a quick visit, Hetzner's advantage is ram size.

For 9.70€ you get 8gb on Hetzner but only 4Gb on the 15$ plan on BuyVM.

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Re:Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021) by arcastroe on Thursday December 01, 2022 @12:19AM (#33812644)
> Nitter doesn’t have a robots.txt by default so the first thing I did was fork it and add one that blocked all robots.

Glad to see this has been resolved since then, on the official repository https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/631

I am considering running a public instance for personal use and this was one of my concerns as well

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