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Anyone hosts @PeerTube videos on object storage like Backblaze B2 ? If so is it reliable? Difficult to setup?

And how about storing the videos on HDDs? Is it too slow?

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in reply to lps

@lps Yep, we use Linode Object Storage, and it works great. Pretty much any S3-compatible provider should work, although you may have to deal with specific quirks of the provider to get it working.

Object Storage is a lifesaver, basically allows us to scale up and host vast amounts of video for relatively little cost.

@lps
in reply to Sean Tilley

Thank you. Looks expensive tho :D

We would need 2TB at least...how much do you use?

in reply to Tio

@lps I think we’re on the 5TB tier. Yeah, it’s a bit expensive, but it gives us some room to grow. Definitely look around and compare services!

One thing that we do with onboarding new users is to point them towards our OpenCollective page, which helps offset the cost significantly. It’ll become more of a headache as the instance gets bigger, but Object Storage solved a lot of long-term problems for us.

@lps