| 11 Apr 2024 |
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| the_gamer_guy | any public instance operators willing to provide me with some ballpark figures of their instances monthly bandwidth consumption? I've got an instance set up with all the bells and whistles (http1.1/h2/h3 quic, SSL, front end on ipv4/6 dual stack, back end on ipv6 address rotation) that im using for friends only. I'd like to make it public, but ive only got about 10TB of bandwidth on the VPS. I can negotiate a higher cap, but I dont think I can get 100TB like the docs say lol | 02:57:36 |
 @vojkovic:matrix.org | In reply to @the_gamer_guy:matrix.org
any public instance operators willing to provide me with some ballpark figures of their instances monthly bandwidth consumption? I've got an instance set up with all the bells and whistles (http1.1/h2/h3 quic, SSL, front end on ipv4/6 dual stack, back end on ipv6 address rotation) that im using for friends only. I'd like to make it public, but ive only got about 10TB of bandwidth on the VPS. I can negotiate a higher cap, but I dont think I can get 100TB like the docs say lol It varies wildly based on the instances popularity and if especially if proxy is enabled or not. From what I've heard from some instance hosts with proxy enabled, it's common to see 30tb+ of use each month. For comparison, when I was hosting my public instance with proxy disabled, I only used about 600gb/month of bandwidth.
You can use a proxy server to get around this: https://docs.invidious.io/hide-instance-behind-proxy-server/
Buying a VPS from a provider like BuyVM for a few bucks a month will get you uncapped bandwidth.
| 03:25:23 |
 Ward | In reply to @onion.chunky:matrix.org
This is the yaml file for reference: https://github.com/ChunkyProgrammer/invidious-docs/blob/add-open-api-page/scripts/swagger.yaml looks neat, would be cool if the spec could be generated automatically. Not a crystal developer so no idea how easy this is to implement | 03:45:28 |
 absidue | In reply to @wardpearce:matrix.org
would it be possible to use openapi instead of manual API documentation? Or would it not be worth the effort It would likely be in addition to the docs page, so it would only be worth it, if it can be automatically generated and if it's low-effort to implement the automatic generation. Otherwise it would add even more work on the already overflowing plates of the Invidious devs. | 04:49:54 |
| Ward | yea for sure | 04:50:39 |
| the_gamer_guy | In reply to @vojkovic:matrix.org
It varies wildly based on the instances popularity and if especially if proxy is enabled or not. From what I've heard from some instance hosts with proxy enabled, it's common to see 30tb+ of use each month. For comparison, when I was hosting my public instance with proxy disabled, I only used about 600gb/month of bandwidth.
You can use a proxy server to get around this: https://docs.invidious.io/hide-instance-behind-proxy-server/
Buying a VPS from a provider like BuyVM for a few bucks a month will get you uncapped bandwidth.
interesting... lots of useful info there. thanks. so it seems like with 10TB I should be ok without proxying. | 04:54:34 |
 Nihilist OLD ACCOUNT !!!! | In reply to @the_gamer_guy:matrix.org
interesting... lots of useful info there. thanks. so it seems like with 10TB I should be ok without proxying. Until your instance gets a little popular and consumes 85TiB per month like mine lol | 05:38:25 |
 @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | Disclaimer: Its not only the proxy, make sure you have DASH disabled too | 05:40:15 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | In reply to @nihilist:m.datura.network
Until your instance gets a little popular and consumes 85TiB per month like mine lol Angeber 🤪 | 05:41:06 |
| absidue | In reply to @weidenwiesel:matrix.org
Disclaimer: Its not only the proxy, make sure you have DASH disabled too DASH won't work in browsers without the proxy anyway (proxy is needed to by pass CORS) | 05:41:26 |
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 @username3498:matrix.org | Hi guys! This is not directly an invdious issue, but it might be interesting for those who host public instances.
Russian censorship agency Roscomnadzor been banning invidious for a while now. The main theory is that they use crawlers and look for any materials Russian authorities deemed "extremist". A lot of "extremist" stuff is naturally hosted on youtube. So they look for the video titles and ban anything that has links to that.
Take look at this https://reestr.rublacklist.net/en/?q=invidious - it's a monitoring project that shows blocked resources on the web, and there's a number of invidious instances Roskomnadzor already blocked.
Banning the crawlers might help mitigating some of the risks. Here's a project that collects data on what networks are being used by Roskomnadzor to host their crawlers https://github.com/C24Be/AS_Network_List/
You can also find a short instruction on how to block the crawlers in a few different ways https://freemedia.tech/block-rugov.html
I hope you'll find that useful. | 09:13:31 |
| Nihilist OLD ACCOUNT !!!! | In reply to @username3498:matrix.org
Hi guys! This is not directly an invdious issue, but it might be interesting for those who host public instances.
Russian censorship agency Roscomnadzor been banning invidious for a while now. The main theory is that they use crawlers and look for any materials Russian authorities deemed "extremist". A lot of "extremist" stuff is naturally hosted on youtube. So they look for the video titles and ban anything that has links to that.
Take look at this https://reestr.rublacklist.net/en/?q=invidious - it's a monitoring project that shows blocked resources on the web, and there's a number of invidious instances Roskomnadzor already blocked.
Banning the crawlers might help mitigating some of the risks. Here's a project that collects data on what networks are being used by Roskomnadzor to host their crawlers https://github.com/C24Be/AS_Network_List/
You can also find a short instruction on how to block the crawlers in a few different ways https://freemedia.tech/block-rugov.html
I hope you'll find that useful. Thanks for sharing | 09:15:31 |
| @username3498:matrix.org | In reply to @nihilist:m.datura.network
Thanks for sharing I believe your instance is already blocked https://reestr.rublacklist.net/en/?q=iv.datura.network | 09:17:36 |
| Nihilist OLD ACCOUNT !!!! | In reply to @username3498:matrix.org
I believe your instance is already blocked https://reestr.rublacklist.net/en/?q=iv.datura.network gee i wonder if i should send them a mail to ask to get unbanned :^) | 10:59:29 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | Interesting, my instance got unblocked 🤔 | 11:46:01 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | Lol, there is an HTTP 451 "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons
The user agent requested a resource that cannot legally be provided, such as a web page censored by a government."
I will use the russian government list and return them this status code.
😆😆😆
| 11:51:31 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | * Lol, there is an HTTP 451 "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons - The user agent requested a resource that cannot legally be provided, such as a web page censored by a government."
I will use the russian government list and return them this status code.
😆😆😆 | 11:51:46 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | * Lol, there is an HTTP 451 "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons - The user agent requested a resource that cannot legally be provided, such as a web page censored by a government."
I will use a russian government crawler list and return them this status code.
😆😆😆 | 11:52:28 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | I just hope this doesnt backfire and get it blocked :D | 11:54:29 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | Nah better to return 404 | 11:54:44 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | * Nah better to return 404 or 204 | 11:55:02 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | * Nah better to return 404 | 11:57:30 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | Nah dont know if I really want to do that | 12:05:17 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | Lets just keep things how they are | 12:05:26 |
| @weidenwiesel:matrix.org | * I'm just gonna keep things how they are | 12:06:34 |
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| @username3498:matrix.org | In reply to @weidenwiesel:matrix.org
I just hope this doesnt backfire and get it blocked :D It wouldn't. They expect to see content blocked, that's the whole point. Many websites block specific content for Russian clients in order to protect the site as a whole from being banned. | 14:08:27 |
