Hi @ll, a friend of mine is a scientist and has written many papers. Each of these papers has a lot of underlying video data (which show each experiment in detail). For example, one paper is easily 200 GB of video data. Now, my friend is looking for a free public archive to make this data publicly available, also for archiving purposes. The best recommendations he has received was to upload everything to Youtube, but I said - don’t. I would like to recommend him a PeerTube instance for that but I have no clue which instance would agree to that much video data for archiving purposes. Might you have an idea? Peace out, T
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If your friend wants to upload data to a Peertube instance, sooner or later, your friend needs to donate money to support the hosting costs. It’s not much really, just talk to the instance owner and work out a deal.
But if you want to post stuff on PT, but not donate, you’re basically asking for charity. Instance owners make no ad revenue, they’re paying for everything out of pocket.
Whatever instance he chooses, he needs to keep a local backup, because Peertube instances do occasionally disappear.
That is a lot of data. Can it be compressed at all? Can they not self-host it?
Only option is youtube which also has video size limit to 256GB per file
Most universities have data repositories for such material. I can see why uploading to PeerTube might be interesting in addition.
