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What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth
(lemmy.zip)
Look in to I2P.
A Syncthing relay, very simple to set up, I always install it when I have no need for a VPS but it's paid for until the end of the month
Linux installer ISO images. Perfectly legal, and very helpful.
Torrents for the popular distros have lots of peers, so another seeder wouldn't be adding much.
I avoid downloading isos via torrent, because when I tried, the client straight up froze for a while, dealing with over a thousand peers and sorting out connections.
Yeah it is true but seeding torrents to sature bandwith is generally a good idea
As a seasoned torrenter myself, I don't observe the ‘>=1’ ratio rule, but instead delete torrents that have enough seeders and keep those which have just a few. This maximizes utility for those who might want the same torrents as I did.
Of course, this inevitably runs into lack of endless disk space rather than bandwidth. And if you seed something other than Linux, you might want to research the authorities' attitude toward that in your area.
A very good idea indeed. Do you mean via torrent or is there any way to host it ?
Why not a tor relay? If you're not an exit it is pretty darn safe. How about a tor snowflake proxy too? Even easier and safer.
archiveteam warrior
I've not looked into it much yet, but https://radicle.xyz/ seems interesting.
It's kinda a bittorrent-powerd codeberg and it looks like it's worth playing around with (even though it might not get you rid of much bandwidth... IDK how popular it is, but source usually doesn't weigh that much).
I2P outproxy or seeding torrents
What do you mean unused bandwidth? Is that not the normal? Most of the time I'm not using my bandwidth so I guess I have lots of unused bandwidth too.
Well I've already paid for it so why not saturate it for the good of the community :D
You could consider peertube, although I am not terribly familiar with the hardware load
FediNSFW.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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