Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

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Cannot find an instance I like. (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I cannot find another instance that I feel like will accept my content without dividing it in different instances.

I like posting different things like clips from older cartoons (both English and Italian), videogame clips or tutorials, tech tutorials, repost memes... and I wanna stream me playing videogames. I don't wanna see any NSFW.

I used to like an instance called yt.is.nota.live but didn't use it for quite some time. Checking back now, looks like it's no longer being hosted.

With how instances are setup and moderated I indeed feel like I would have to make multiple accounts in different instances.

Should I just look into creating my own instance? I am fine with creating multiple channels to divide the content, just don't want to make multiple accounts to remember both credentials and where they are hosted.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually surprisingly easy to host your own instance, and if you don't allow anyone else on it then it's also very cheap, the cheapest VPS is good enough. I do the same thing, I have a cooking channel, a music one, one for family videos and one for Peertube Admins. I would have the same problem as you finding the right instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nice! What VPS are you using personally? I was thinking about Contabo with Debian. Not the cheapest but heard its nice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started with the CX11 at Hetzner for EUR 4.51/Month but have now a CX11 + 200 GB Volume because I have many different services there like Lemmy, Mastodon, Jitsi, Matrix, a couple of websites, etc.

I made one mistake when I was setting up the server last time, I didn't use LVM (Logical Volume Manager) and then had a lot of trouble to extend the root partiton, had to mount the volume somewhere and point each service to write their data there specifically, which was tedious. So now I'm in the middle of moving to a new server which is the exact same but I set up LVM from the start so I'll be able to easily extend the size of the hard drive as needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The CX11 single vCPU and 2GB of RAM is enough for all of those? I wanted to be much safer about it and go for either a Contabo S or a Hetzner CX21 now that you proposed the service.

Contabo S gives much more around the same price, so I don't know what's exactly the catch here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The small one is enough for just PeerTube. I went bigger because it couldn't keep up once I moved lemmy, mastodon and some other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You said you are still using the CX11. I understood about the extra storage, but I wanted to know how can the single CPU and 2GB handle all the services. Unless they are not as heavy as I think they are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No I probably expressed myself wrong. Once I started adding the other services the small one started having problems and the load would go up so high that it would choke. But for one of those services it's more than enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, understood! If upgrades are not charged immensely (for example like going from a CX11 to an exact replica of an higher tier somehow costing more per month) then I think it's very good as a start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The cool thing in the cloud is that you can just extend what you have, no need to create a new server.