I would imagine the most expensive part is the storage space perhaps Peertube instances can function as cooperatives for content creators where they pool their resources to kickstart their own independent video platform free from censorship and frivolous corporate takedowns.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    I pay $5 / month for object storage for about 120 GB of video files (about 400 videos). And I pay another $5 for a small VPS to run the software.

    I have been running it from home on a old NUC I had for years though too without problems until the NUC broke down.

    Most of my videos are private though and have around 10 views from my friends and family.

    If you have a public one with a lot of viewers it will get more expensive, but at the same time other instances will do redundancy and the p2p nature helps also to reduce costs.

    Oh and you then could also do a cache on your server for the most viewed videos to reduce the egress cost from the object storage provider.

    I had my videos on a block storage but the costs started to be too much, for the 120 GB I had to pay $13 / month or so.