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Originally Posted by TFCash
Can't see it taking off with all the end point service providers putting caps on monthly bandwidth. Image the drive space needed to host something like pornhub on a local machine  |
You don't need a lot of disk space, you only need to join a federation of servers that align with your community. PeerTube is a distributed platform, Pornhub is a monolithic platform. There's also not one single PeerTube platform. There are federations of sites who align on community standards, content and moderation who join together to form their federation.
You also don't need a lot of bandwidth. A federation of just 50 servers using a $20 virtual server each would have 4000 gigabytes of storage and 150000 gigabytes of bandwidth per month across the federation. That's a lot of bandwidth and a lot of storage, all federated. So to run a site with all that content would only cost you $20 per month.