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Re:PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas by madeofpalk on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @07:40AM (#38445060)
How likely is it that my company's promotional videos will be federated to the extent that it'll actually reduce my bandwidth cost by a non-trivial amount? Will hosting videos like this increase reliability or reduce it? I genuinely don't know - i've never used it - but it would be far from my first pick for this kind of stuff.

> but which platforms employ the power of the torrent protocol to distribute bandwidth so you can run with minimal costs?

You mean apart from S3? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_GetObjec...

> Amazon S3 does not support the BitTorrent protocol in AWS Regions launched after May 30, 2016.

oh.

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Re:PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas by w8whut on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @07:44AM (#38445079)
beside that... using a hosted service doesn't quiet qualify as selfhosted either.

And thats also ignoring the elephant in the room called pricing. egress is pretty expensive on AWS, you'd at least want to use their video streaming service instead of s3 for a consumer website.

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Re:PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas by freedomben on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:12PM (#38448100)
Yep, using s3 to serve video streams is one of the worst things you can do to yourself. If you've got the money and need, Cloudflare Stream is pretty damn good.
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