*ok, looks like we're not going to have enough capacity for 15 movies. :biden-forgor: Pina tells me there's enough for maybe 5 though.
If you have any solutions let me know. If not, we're only going to do a few and possibly spread them out with slop already on youtube.
My apologies :cri:
If capacity is just a storage space problem, someone can sign up for an Oracle Cloud free tier account and spin up one of the 4vCPU/24gb RAM ARM instances and attach a ~150gb block volume to the 40gb boot volume on that instance and then run Nextcloud on Docker to manage/serve the media files. That's a free ~200gb storage for the foreseeable future (seemingly the Oracle ARM instances in the free tier are here to stay as they've been available for $0/M for about 2 years now).
I don't know exactly how the self-hosted cytube instance works for playing external media, but if it just needs somewhere to pull the video files from this seems like a possible solution.
Can one host movies on oracle?
What I described above is setting up a very lightweight cloud compute instance and then running a tool (Nextcloud- a Google drive-like application that can be self-hosted) on that instance (preferably through Docker).
So long as that instance isn't broadcasting its existence to everyone, there's pretty much a 0% chance that Oracle would ever manually scan an instance to see what data was sitting on the block volumes (and contractually they probably can't without cause).
I don't really know how cytube handles external media under the hood, so I may be off base here about whether this is a real solution or not.
Short explanation assuming the instance is up
I assume this is how it already works (just with a different file host than Nextcloud on a cloud compute instance).
If you ping the people who set up the CyTube instance that's served at live.hexbear they can probably weigh in on if this is a good way to handle the problem. I would but I just don't know who the people to ping are.
You would want to contact @Zoift about that because itspina already told me no lol.
its not really a storage problem, its a bandwidth cap on what we use to host files, and this isnt even a problem unless we decide to host 25 movies in one month instead of our usual 8
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peertube makes everyones IPs exposed afaik
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Got it. Nevermind my suggestion then unfortunately. Maybe it'll help somewhere else down the line if more compute/storage is needed for some other project down the line.
ty for the recommendation im actually looking in to it rn but it seems like itd be too much of a PITA for some mobies