What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage?
from hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 09:55
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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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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca on 15 Feb 20:17 next collapse

Store a lot of things you never access

Hope that helps 😌

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz on 15 Feb 10:10 next collapse

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

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Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
VPN Virtual Private Network
XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging

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fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 20:35 next collapse

Fserve territory.

Xdcc does the either end. Lots of bw, low storage.

hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works on 15 Feb 22:11 next collapse

Funny how perspective changes things.

Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up. DSL, for 8 people.

We had that until… 2014? 2016? Then we got 10/1.5, mbps, down/up respectively.

We had that until 2022 ish, when we got 30/10. And I started self hosting with ease, plenty of bandwidth for myself and my immediate family’s needs.

Only last year, 2025, did we finally strike gold and get access to fiber. 8000/8000 available, but it’s spendy.

I’m used to living with significantly less, so I opted for the lowest tier, 300/300.

I feel like I’m legitimately living in the future right now, so fast.

I feel for everyone who is stuck with slow Internet. But it’s all perspective. And from my perspective, 20 up is plenty for most things your average person wants to do. More is always better, obviously. But even then, you don’t need gargantuan pipes to self host.

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need, though obviously, again, more is always better 🤷‍♂️

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 16 Feb 10:14 next collapse

Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up

Ahhh, the ‘good old days’. Now days I have a business account with Spectrum. 1 gbps down/50 mbps up which is great for uploading and downloading large architectural drawings, but otherwise, it seems excessive.

MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de on 19 Feb 01:39 collapse

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need,

… till the start torrenting

hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works on 20 Feb 06:52 collapse

I am an avid Linux user and sharer of ISOs, never had a lick of trouble on 30/10.

10/1.5 was tough but doable.

1.5/300k was impossible.

eleitl@lemmy.zip on 16 Feb 05:54 next collapse

Run a libgen mirror (over VPN). Pin docs on IPFS.

fractumseraph@lemmy.piracy.social on 16 Feb 07:56 next collapse

eBooks and music. 16tb will fit everything you could ever want from MAM. (Not that you dbe abke to download it all with slot limits.)

Cloudstash@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 11:29 collapse

And movies, tv shows, game servers and what not. Kindly stop beliving your source needs to provide at 1000/1000, thats just a sales gimmic from the operators.

henfredemars@infosec.pub on 15 Feb 10:27 next collapse

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.

Cyber@feddit.uk on 15 Feb 15:30 collapse

Yeah, this.

It’s annoying as hell waiting 6 weeks for someone to come online with that last 3%.

Anything I find like that I seed as long as I can

henfredemars@infosec.pub on 15 Feb 16:19 collapse

I have my seed box limit upload bandwidth to quite a low value, not because I hate leechers, but because I have to spread out my available data cap to maximize availability over the long term. If I blow through my data in three days I’m not as much good to the network.

MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de on 19 Feb 01:44 collapse

All these speeds the providers advertise (especially the faster ones) are often cut down by bad peering. I often had an issue downloading bigger files from my storage when I was traveling. Only got some single digit MBit transfer speeds due to bad peering, while speed tests has shown decent results. When it comes down to Selfhosting the upload/download figures alone not always tell the truth. In my point of view 20Mbps is actually even sufficient for most of private stuff, even streaming HD content to one ore two peers simultaneously.