PeerTube Made My YouTube Better


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Why use PeerTube? It makes YouTubing less risky.
Having a test audience and re-uploads lets you catch issues before they go up on YouTube permanently. PeerTube also gives you a permanent archive of your work so that you'll always have a copy even if YouTube takes it down.
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Hey Allen,

You can look at the about page of a Peertube instance to see how much storage the instance is using in relation to how many videos it's hosting.
video.fedihost.co/about/instan…

Keep in mind, it's definitely not an exact science because there are many ways to optimize a video to minimizing storage if this is your priority.

You can get an idea of storage costs on the fedihost pricing page:
fedihost.co/pricing#storage

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Awesome job on the video! I learned quite a bit what you could do with peertube. I have a very small instance (just family videos) and didn't know about quite a few of the features you mentioned.

I put a couple of videos on youtube but most of them got flagged. One about a store selling bad food. One copyright strike with a VERY old video with family members that happened to have music on the background for a couple of seconds. Things like that made uploading a HUGE pain.

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I can’t help but wonder how much it costs to run a PeerTube. It looks like, to me at least, that bandwidth costs must be quite hefty.

After another youtuber has expressed their frustrations with the platform, I did a quick and dirty calculations which came to about $1200/month for their number of videos and views.