It goes without saying that self hosting uses a lot of bandwidth. But I’m curious… how much do y’all use? Post your stats!

  • Eheran@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Downloading tons of content. Seems more likely than being a central streaming hub for tons of people for multiple reasons.

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      2 days ago

      And what would those “multiple reasons” be? Where is OP storing 400TB worth of downloads?

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        2 days ago

        Why would you put it in "? Do you think those are not going to be really and/or multiple?

        We are talking about a monthly average upload of something like 100 Mbit/s, which of worth about constantly streaming 2 movies at 50 G. The peaks during prime time are multiples of that, realistically exceeding 1 GB/s, since most people stream evening/night. Then he would need to be streaming tons of movies, making him a prime target for a big lawsuit. Instead, if he just downloads and seeds some files, you get a near constant throughput. Linux, Tor node, or some mixture of all of that. But not a streaming service for a dozens of people.