#PeerTube is a type of Fediverse server for hosting video and audio. It's free open source software, so anyone can set up their own server (just like Mastodon).
Because anyone can start their own server, it's extra-important that there are safe ways to discover and search nice videos on PeerTube.
I've tried to create a safe PeerTube search/discovery service at:
@feditips As far as I know, most providers limit traffic per month. Are there estimations somewhere how much data a PeerTube server could transfer? Let's say that I produce (upload) 10 videos per moth. 10GB and 1000 views each. That wouldn't come to 10 * 10 * 1000, would it? Different video qualities have different size (which increases storage costs), plus P2P should reduce the traffic. Is there some public data to look at?
I'm not a sysadmin, I use a managed hosting provider for my instance, so I don't have expertise on bandwidth. I haven't had any specific bandwidth restrictions or estimations mentioned by my provider.
The amount that p2p helps depends on whether people are viewing the same version of the same video at the same time. If they are, then the p2p system helps out, and you'll see this with the "peers" number going up on the video itself.
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