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PeerTube

https://joinpeertube.org/

Federated video hosting, similar & compatible with Mastadon, created by a French non-profit FramaSoft using [[Activity Pub]].

Has option of Torrent streaming and torrent downloads to reduce bandwidth costs; can control levels of federation (prevent federation; block specific sites, etc).

How to install: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/production.md (Nginx)

Architecture

Includes…

  • a modern database engine (PostgreSQL) to store long-term metadata
  • a reverse proxy (we officially support Nginx but nothing prevents us from using others) to handle certificates, and directly serve static assets
  • a key-value store (Redis) to help application caching and task queueing
  • a server application with:
    • controllers to server static and clients files
    • a REST API server providing the actual logic
    • an ActivitPub API to receive messages and present local objects
    • a BitTorrent tracker to allow clients to do P2P
    • a socker.io server to notify clients
    • a task scheduler to send ActivityPub requests, run transcoding jobs etc.
  • a Single Page Application web client that consumes the REST API
  • a user that interacts with the web client of his choice

architecture overview

Technologies

Requirements

https://joinpeertube.org/faq#should-i-have-a-big-server-to-run-peertube

"PeerTube should run happily on a virtual machine with 2 threads/vCPUs, at least 1 Gb of RAM and enough storage for videos. In terms of bandwidth, a lot will depend on which PeerTube instances you federate with and what your relation with them is (more about that below). As a real life example, the PeerTube demonstration server https://peertube.cpy.re runs on 2 vCores and 2GB of RAM.

Average consumption is:

  • CPU: nginx ~ 2%, peertube ~ 10%, postgres ~ 1%, redis ~ 1%
  • RAM: nginx ~ 1MB, peertube ~ 150MB, postgres ~ 30MB, redis ~ 20MB
  • Network: ~200GB sent per month (https://framatube.org: ~1.5TB sent per month)"

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