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What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 4 hours ago by hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have a limited 20Mbps upload speed but 16 TB of storage. I’m kinda just asking if there’s anything I can use it for. I’ll donate one purpose: seeding Anna’s Archive. Not sure on other causes.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 23 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Just about anything as long as you don't need to serve it to hundreds of people simultaneously. Hell, I once hosted Jellyfin over a 3G hotpot and it managed.

Pretty much any web-based app will work fine. Streaming servers (Emby, Plex, Jellyfin, etc) work fine for a few simultaneous people as long as you're not trying to push 4K or something. 1080p can work fine at 4 Mbps or less (transcoding is your friend here). Chat servers (Matrix, XMPP, etc) are also a good candidate.

I hosted everything I wanted with 30 Mbps upload before I got symmetric fiber.

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus dude...was it good?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

1080p buffered generously but it worked :) The sweet spot was having it transcode to 720p (yay hardware acceleration). I wasn't sharing it with anyone at the time, so it was just me watching at work on one phone while using my second phone at home for internet.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 13 points 3 hours ago

Seed. I’d rather have at least one whole copy in a swarm versus a bunch of really fast peers that don’t have the complete files.

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

I use my 50 mbps connection to host Plex/Jellyfin and I have a wireguard setup to allow me to access my files.

It works... Mostly. I have to manually set my streaming rate in Jellyfin to something reasonable to make it work remotely.

Downloading files from my server is an overnight process most times.

It also runs qbit with port forwarding to have faster uploading speeds. Everything manages to squeeze through that 50 mbps.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Hosting for the public, it's honestly going to depend on how many users you are going to have. Pretty much anything that is light on bandwidth should be doable. Websites, blogs, wikis. XMPP chat servers might work. Matrix might work as well. Adding to your seeding idea, you might seed torrents for any Linux distros you happen to like or build torrent seeds for projects with larger download sizes. I seem to recall a project that would enable you to seed peertube channels as well, though I can't find the project right now.

If it's just you and maybe a few family and friends,say over a mesh VPN, what ever you want, though video streaming may be a bit much for that bandwidth. Any other type of personal media should be very doable. Books, music, that sort of thing.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

For hosting websites something like grebedoc aka git-pages would be cool to have. (or just another instance of that)

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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[–] zerosouls@piefed.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Local area NAS loaded with mp3/4's

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

An old school BBS like we used to do on dialup. Personally, Anna’s Archive seems a bit 'hot' right now and not because of popularity with users.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Movies, TV, porn. That's what I started with anyway...

20 up isn't terrible; I made do with 10 for 8 years, and that included hosting said movies and shows to friends.