4 ARM64 cores, 24GB of RAM and 200GB of storage, and some other resources and older x86, for the low low price of free. 10TB outgoing limit, no incoming limit as far as I know. You can setup one or many VPS using the resources.
I have a a full media stack running on one - Plex, Tautulli, Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, Qbittorrent, Jackett among other services like Portainer, YTDL, Traefik. I’ve seen 8+ streams with 4 or 5 720p transcodes, the CPU is pegged but it keeps up.
For storage I use a combo of services. Rclone, mounting a remote google drive to /mnt/remote. Cloudplow, takes stuff from /mnt/local folder and directly uploads to the remote drive via gdrive API using the same rclone config. And mergerfs, takes the /mnt/remote and /mnt/local folders and combines them into a /mnt/merged folder. The /mnt/merged folder is the main folder for media, downloads, etc. Any writes are first stored in /mnt/local.
I describe that setup to demonstrate the capacity of a free service, of course much less complex for a seedbox.
It’s probably at the same level of difficulty to set up your own seedbox (i.e. in a VPS or even your own hardware) as it is to set up your own actual Lemmy instance.
Merelly figuring out the fediverse is way less complicated than either of those.
I’m assuming that the venn diagram of people willing to set up a seedbox overlaps near 100% with those willing to figure out the “fediverse”
Seedbox user here, can confirm, lol.
Whassa seedbox?
A virtual machine in the cloud used for torrenting
The thing you use when you’re lazy as all get out and can’t be bothered to use a VPN. Plus, you get faster download speeds over DDL anyway, so 🤷.
Shit, on the private tracker I’m on I basically get zero up because everyone’s seedbox has so much more bandwidth than my VPN.
I have the same issue, that’s why I love private trackers that offer some sort of bonus points for just continuing to seed.
If I had the money, I would. Alas, I’m a university student with no real source of income.
Put Oracle Free Tier to work…
Go on…
4 ARM64 cores, 24GB of RAM and 200GB of storage, and some other resources and older x86, for the low low price of free. 10TB outgoing limit, no incoming limit as far as I know. You can setup one or many VPS using the resources.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
I have a a full media stack running on one - Plex, Tautulli, Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, Qbittorrent, Jackett among other services like Portainer, YTDL, Traefik. I’ve seen 8+ streams with 4 or 5 720p transcodes, the CPU is pegged but it keeps up.
For storage I use a combo of services. Rclone, mounting a remote google drive to /mnt/remote. Cloudplow, takes stuff from /mnt/local folder and directly uploads to the remote drive via gdrive API using the same rclone config. And mergerfs, takes the /mnt/remote and /mnt/local folders and combines them into a /mnt/merged folder. The /mnt/merged folder is the main folder for media, downloads, etc. Any writes are first stored in /mnt/local.
I describe that setup to demonstrate the capacity of a free service, of course much less complex for a seedbox.
I know almost nothing about servers but that sounds very capable. Why do they offer it for free? How many lemmy users do you think it can handle?
Free because you can roll into a paid service easily, it’s a trap really. But if you can stay within the free limits then it’s gold.
Lots of users. Depends on storage requirements, 200GB could be limiting if you want to host media.
F that, lots of free image hosts exist.
I never managed to pass the sign-up form, I gave up with Oracle. If you are able to access it, please abuse their resources the most possible
As far as I’m aware you only get a 1 gb ram instance on Oracle cloud free, where are you getting this 24 gb ram instance?
That’s true for x86, but the Ampere free tier allows up to 24GB.
I just checked, my area domain (or whatever that’s called) does not have the machines to provision 🥲
Ah that sucks, can you setup a tenancy in a different location?
It’s probably at the same level of difficulty to set up your own seedbox (i.e. in a VPS or even your own hardware) as it is to set up your own actual Lemmy instance.
Merelly figuring out the fediverse is way less complicated than either of those.
I am considering setting one up so I moved over, yup.