P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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Some that we should look at are:

• DC++ Hubs
• TorrentBytes
• TBDev / Early Trackers
• TBDev codebases / PureTNA
• What.CD / PassThePopcorn
• Empornium / BroadcastheNet
• RED (Redacted) / Orpheus (OPS)
• GGn (GazelleGames) / Modern Trackers
• Cross-Seed / Autobrr / BTT

(Ignore the type of content they served)

Each of these iterated on social technologies — and created P2P CDNs.

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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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These created technical and social technologies to create P2P CDNs.

And note that I (also) said "social technologies". The social technologies were as important as the software.

P2P CDNs can hugely reduce the cost of serving files, including videos. (There is a long history of them working.)

P2P CDNs can make serving large files on the Fediverse much more viable.

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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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There are techniques for creating a CDN that can support a community while keeping costs down.

You can trace the history of these techniques back to at least the 1990s.

Broadly speaking, these techniques were use with:

BitTorrent, Private BitTorrent Trackers, and Direct Connect.

I think the Fediverse can and should learn from these techniques, and put them to use.

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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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There are definitely affordable commercial choices for CDNs for smaller sites and home-labers.

But, if you are trying to build a community (with many, many users) — a CDN can become expensive. Even very expensive.

(Electronic Arts (EA) has a whole team that takes up half a floor whose job iis to negotiate pricing from the Akamai CDN company.)

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PeerTube P2P protocol + HLS

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I imagine P2P downloads could be made more common (than they currently are) if people were encouraged to save videos locally — because they could then serve chunks of that saved video to others.

And, if people were rewarded somehow for serving video chunks to others — that could further make P2P downloads more common.

(These incentives existed for some BitTorrent sites decades ago.)

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Self-Hosting an ActivityPub Video Podcast Is Surprisingly Affordable

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When you look at the actual storage requirements, self-hosting a video podcast on the Fediverse starts to look a lot less intimidating — and a lot more realistic.

It is affordable — especially with your own HomeLab (where you buy your own hard drives rather than rent them).

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Self-Hosting an ActivityPub Video Podcast Is Surprisingly Affordable

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A 2 TB hard drive is often available for around $50–$60, which is enough space for five years of weekly episodes.

Need more room?

4 TB, 8 TB, 12 TB, and even 16 TB drives are widely available and far more affordable than most people expect. (Ex: 8TB is about $130 to $170.)

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Self-Hosting an ActivityPub Video Podcast Is Surprisingly Affordable

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A typical 1-hour podcast episode at 1080p 60 fps is around 5.4 GB.

At one episode per week, that's about 280 GB per year.

Even after 5 years, your entire podcast archive would only use about 1.4 TB of storage.

That is it.

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