Got some great #tilvids news. After months of working (in my spare-spare time), all the technical goals I set for TILvids are up and running:
1. Migrated to a new host with more storage/resources at a better price, thus making our resources go further.
2. Spin up a US-based redundancy server to improve performance for our US viewers.
3. Implement automated, off-site nightly backups of the entire site, just in case.
Thank you to the countless people who helped along the way! 👏
Good question. It's like a CDN for sure (if you set it up that way) but only for the video content of the site, not the page content. In other words, if a visitor is multiple hops away, the pages will still be slower to load, but once they start playing the video content, that should load faster.
So I guess a better description is that redundancy is a pseudo-CDN. It'd be neat if @Framasoft could figure out a way to make #peertube page content redundant somehow as well... 🤔
@tilvids @Framasoft Interesting. Thank you for the clarifications. I'm surprised the page is not included in the caching.
Since reading about redundancy I've theorized leaders/admins of a community (example animators, Tech, history buffs etc) could set up geolocation (ex East-US, West-US) to help with some storage and bandwidth costs across the Admins, and members could spin up smaller community mirrors or general instances to help the network.
@tilvids @Framasoft I, of course, say this all as an outside observer I could be completely off base, but it's one thing that I think about a lot when I look down peertube rabbit holes, and its possibly of what it looks like at some amount of scale.
And I just think it's neat. 🙂
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