Peertube and S3/Minio Objectstorage

[jdaviescoates]

Woohoo!

So, after following this guide:

https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/storage/object/api-cli/object-storage-aws-cli/

And then this guide:

https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/storage/object/api-cli/setting-cors-rules/

I now have videos stored on S3 that ALSO play!

https://bridport.tv/w/hCegSC1b9YGW5hAgbQbFcE

[jdaviescoates]

Scaleway are great. Good prices, great docs!

I was tempted by special offer Contabo pricing, but unlike Scaleway they aren't 100% renewably powered (although their German based stuff when I'd bought some object storage is), and their docs are crap.

So looks like I'll just ditch Contabo and stick with using Scaleway for my Object Storage needs.

[SamGreenwood]

anyone done this on Linode?

[LoudLemur]

@scooke Thanks for asking this question. I might try this using block storage with Wasabi and PeerTube.

Why is object storage suitable for this task? Isn't object storage better for keeping gigantic files? I suppose a considerable archive of videos would end up needing a large amount of storage, but they would all be separate files.

[jdaviescoates]

@LoudLemur said in Peertube and S3/Minio Objectstorage:

Why is object storage suitable for this task? Isn't object storage better for keeping gigantic files?

Video files are relatively large files.

But aside from that, often VPS servers don't come with much disk space and so Object Storage is just one relatively cheap way of increasing the amount of storage you have.

@LoudLemur said in Peertube and S3/Minio Objectstorage:

Wasabi

Lots of people on here seem to have moved away from them for various reasons.

The cheapest out there seems to be iDrive e2 who have a 90% off offer which makes it insanely cheap for the first year (and pretty good value after that):

https://www.idrive.com/e2/

Personally I use Scaleway who are also good value and 100% powered by renewable energy

https://www.scaleway.com/en/

I've got all my instances of Peertube, Mastodon, and Pixelfed all storing their data on Scaleway Object Storage.

[LoudLemur]

@jdaviescoates You are so good to me!
Thank you. I shall look into those.

[benborges]

I'm wondering if there is a path to do this with Peertube + Hetzner storage box or if the S3 Storage objects way is the only way to store peertube video content outside the cloudron, anyone tried ?

edit : Hmm apparently, the answer is no, only S3 is supported : https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/remote-storage#migrate-to-another-object-storage-provider

[jdaviescoates]

@benborges said in Peertube and S3/Minio Objectstorage:

I'm wondering if there is a path to do this with Peertube + Hetzner storage box or if the S3 Storage objects way is the only way to store peertube video content outside the cloudron, anyone tried ?

You might be able to mount a Volume and then use that for the data directory?

[benborges]

@jdaviescoates Tried that but I have this error then :

it does the same for CIFS volumes

[jdaviescoates]

@benborges yeah, as it states in the data directory docs:

cifs and sshfs volumes are unsuitable as an app's data directory as they do not support file permissions and ownership. mountpoint and nfs volumes may or may not work depending on the destination filesystem.

[benborges]

I wish It could be used like for the LAMP containers, apache handling the file access, I'm using it a lot in that context and it works perfectly ! but yeah I get it