Maintenance of peertube instance.
harish k
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Hi All,
I am currently maintaining a peertube instance for fsci @ https://videos.fsci.org.in/
I would like to handover its responsibility to someone .
Currently, it is running from my personal Scaleway account.
harish k Sat 1 Dec 2018 4:18PM
@Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer: Also, please note that, it may not be a good idea to use any free hosting service for this purpose because, peertube does video encoding on the fly and it is a compute intensive operation.
In short, CPU & disk space requirements are not minimal for peerputbe instance. we need paid account for hosting peertube instance and when users increases, maintenance cost will increase .
shine Mon 17 Dec 2018 7:36PM
I do; but I don't prefer using it unless absolutely necessary. I try to keep my online transactions to a minimum and restricted to my debit card. My debit card has international transactions enabled and has been used to pay my personal server bills at online.net.
If need be, we can put my credit card on file if that is a mandate. Let's try it out with a debit card first, shall we?
Pirate Praveen Tue 18 Dec 2018 5:38AM
Yes, next issue is to use a mailing list as an alias for the admins, easier to manage than an email. @bhe can you create videos at fsci.org.in address?
harish k Fri 21 Dec 2018 4:24AM
Hi all, Is there any update on this ? How can we finalize this process?
-Sent from mobile
Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer Fri 7 Dec 2018 9:07AM
what next @harishk , @shine
Pirate Praveen Sun 9 Dec 2018 5:39AM
We need to get a new server at scaleway.com, using a lists.fsci.org.in alias address.
harish k Wed 12 Dec 2018 5:58AM
So, How we can finalize this? I think a Riot group chat can speed up the process.
Pirate Praveen Fri 14 Dec 2018 11:57AM
We can use #videos.fsci.org.in:poddery.com
harish k Sun 16 Dec 2018 8:55PM
@Praveen: Is it a question to me? Sorry i couldn't understand your question.
Pirate Praveen Mon 17 Dec 2018 6:09AM
No, it is for @shine and @tanzeem to solve the hosting puzzle and get a server.
Akhil Sat 10 Oct 2020 11:44AM
This issue is done and peertube was migrated to an cloud instance in Hetzner. Thanks @harish k and @Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer for the migration and @Kiran S Kunjumon for hosting. Closing the related issue.
Akhil Sat 10 Oct 2020 12:40PM
This issue is done and peertube was migrated to an cloud instance in Hetzner. Thanks @harish k and @Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer for the migration and @Kiran S Kunjumon for hosting. Closing the related issue.
Poll Created Wed 11 Oct 2023 7:23AM
Do we want to keep FSCI's Peertube instance at videos.fsci.in around? Closed Wed 25 Oct 2023 7:00AM
We need to update videos.fsci.in
FSCI runs a Peertube instance at https://videos.fsci.in which hosts a few videos https://videos.fsci.in/videos/local?a-state=42.
FSCI's Peertube instance hasn't been updated since probably when it was setup back during COVID times. It's running v2.2.0, while latest Peertube is v5.2.1
It cost ~5.09 euro per month.
Do we want to keep the instance around as it involves costs and need full planning to bring to latest version.
Choose the option(s) you favor.
Results
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Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update | 76.9% | 10 |
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Sunset videos.fsci.in | 23.1% | 3 |
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| Undecided | 0% | 245 |
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13 of 258 people have participated (5%)
Snehal Shekatkar Wed 11 Oct 2023 7:23AM
Although unfortunately I don't have much time and relevant expertise to support this, I can very much support this financially. So I would like to keep it going. If someone is also willing to teach me somewhat, I might try to intermittently take care on the server side.
Pirate Praveen Wed 11 Oct 2023 7:23AM
If we find new volunteers, we should keep. I think we should keep the poll open for longer (1 week at least and even 2 weeks) and ideally ask around more widely for volunteers before we shut down. Unless we ask explicitly for help people outside the community won't know we need help.
Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer Wed 11 Oct 2023 7:23AM
Need to update and add videos frequently. Steps should be taken to make the instance more publicly available
Raju Devidas Wed 11 Oct 2023 7:23AM
Unless we/someone else are actively/intermmitently using the service, we better sunset the service to actively focus on used services.
Akshay Wed 11 Oct 2023 7:23AM
I volunteer to update it. But I have no opinion on cost of maintenance. Alternatively we can just keep a static archive of the videos in some server.
Pirate Praveen Sun 14 Sep 2025 10:59AM
@Akshay are you still interested in updating peertube?
Akshay Mon 15 Sep 2025 2:14AM
@Pirate Praveen Oh, I don't remember what happened here. I think I volunteered because there were a couple of videos of mine present. I think the same logic applies. I don't have a comment on cost, but I can keep it updated. If it is being sunset I can do the static archive too. Will do later this week
Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer · Sat 1 Dec 2018 9:35AM
ok that seems good. @shine do you have a credit card