Experience with hosting a public Invidious instance? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I just finished setting up the hardware infrastructure to start hosting but I cannot find any specific information in the official documentation on how to set up a public Invidious instance. I understand the guide as far as just hosting an instance and watching YouTube through that goes, but how do I, for instance, give it a publicly searchable domain name that - in the best of worlds - is listed on Invidious' website?

I assume there is a better way than to start posting my instance's IP address throughout any forums that I might be active on?

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[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As diminou mentioned, do your research before you go down this road. You can also open yourself to DMCA takedowns if you aren't careful.

See: https://docs.invidious.io/hide-instance-behind-proxy-server/

It would be better for you to just run a private instance initially. You can use tailscale if you want to be able to access it remotely. That's the safest way to start out.

Edit: There's a tutorial here if you are intent on doing it: https://fedfree.org/docs/http/arch-invidious.html

[-] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago

Thanks for the tutorial! For now, I'm looking into connecting to my instance with a simple wireguard tunnel, if I decide to just have a private instance.

I already read Invidious' documentation. 👍

The reason I'm asking about a public instance is because I want to share my bandwidth with y'all with more than torrenting, an I2P router and Tor bridges. 🙈