Videos.fsci.in

History

April 2018

On April 15, 2018 a discussion on video hosting kicked off in FSCI matrix channel

raghu kamath: i am planning to host these videos on my website too, and also provide links to files and video files used

raghu kamath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xau4v8OXRyY&list=PLFDnlFYBM_7W9s6TrHBVvAuDE_u8jg0bO

raghu kamath: Also i was searching for an peer tube instance in india

pavi: Someone big should host it. Video is expensive and I wouldnt recommend FSCi do it

shirish: if anybody knows and has the skillsets, let me know and we can try and figure out.

shirish: probably even hamara couldn't handle it , it would need quite a bit of cache for it work.

shirish: end of network kind of thing.

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Pirate Praveen: @pavi: I think scaleway.com accounts have unmtered bandwidth

Pirate Praveen: to scale, it will use p2p

Pirate Praveen: https://firedragonvideos.com/videos/watch/f669c599-99b0-4b71-9a52-941e509632a7 I started using this instance of peertube

[...back and forth with pavi about domain name length]

Pirate Praveen: @pavi: peertube dot co.in is still available, if we want to host

Pirate Praveen: @raghukamath: if you are interested, we can try setting up one

pavi: too expensive IMHO. Does anyone have big cash?

pavi: Maybe we can start a funding drive and see how it goes.

Pirate Praveen: @pavi: well, the whole point of peertube is that, the server need not take all the load

pavi: Yes I know. I am still concerned.

Pirate Praveen: we could start with 3 euro per month plan on experimental basis for a few months

Pirate Praveen: and decide to continue or not later

pavi: Wow does it work for peertube?? I am surprised.

Pirate Praveen: @pavi: why not?

Pirate Praveen: yes, disk space is going to be an issue

pavi: @Pirate Praveen: Maybe I am too dumb to learn about the rendering capabilities of a decentralised video server.

Pirate Praveen: @pavi: it is just bandwidth + storage

Pirate Praveen: yes, there is a component of video transcoding too

[...some more back and forth about technicalities]

pavi: Lets go for it, I can sponsor a server. Someone buy the domain name.

June 2018

There was some issue with YouTube and blender and the link https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/ was posted on the FSCI matrix channel by raghu kamath

raghu kamath: yeah, but i feel sad, people need this kind of jolt to move. anyway, i am no better myself. i need to find an instance of peertube. like i said last time we can may be organise something

Pirate Praveen: @raghukamath: we can run our own if we have some more volunteers

Pirate Praveen: currenty its just too few people running to many services

Pirate Praveen on June 20, 2018: if anyone would like to volunteer to setup a peertube instance, let me know. even if you are new, we can mentor you with basic system administration

The discussion channel at https://app.element.io/#/room/#videos.fsci.org.in:poddery.com was created on June 20, 2018 by Pirate Praveen with Harish, pavi, and raghu kamath as members.

Pirate Praveen: lets run it for a few months on trail basis Pirate Praveen: and then decide to make it permanent or not based on the cost and other factors

September 2018

harish asks in the FSCI matrix channel

@all

Can we terminate the test installation of peertube instance which is running @ https://videos.fsci.org.in ?

I am summarizing my thoughts behind this question below.

1. Majority of the community is doen't seems to be instrested in this service. there is only one person from this community have tested this service so far. If this is a unnecessary service, we should not waste resource on this.
2. if everyone think that this is a necessary service for fsci, then we should move this instance to a "production infrastructure" with better reliability and computing resources. Currently, it is running from one of my personal VPS instance.

November 2018

This codema thread from 2018 November says:

harish k:

Hi All,

I am currently maintaining a peertube instance for fsci @ https://videos.fsci.org.in/

I would like to handover its responsibility to someone .

Currently, it is running from my personal Scaleway account.

On 28 Nov 2018 there are a couple of messages in that thread:

Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer: I am willing to maintain the peertube instance for fsci. @harishk., please provide guidelines to maintain the server and documents. I am going through the installation documents available online. Pirate Praveen: @shine also volunteered (we discussed about it at debutsav.in)

2020 and later

There are some back and forths after that, and 2 years later, on 10 Oct 2020:

Akhil: This issue is done and peertube was migrated to an cloud instance in Hetzner. Thanks @harish k and @Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer for the migration and @Kiran S Kunjumon for hosting. Closing the related issue.

In October 2023, a poll was started

sahilister:

FSCI runs a Peertube instance at https://videos.fsci.in which hosts a few videos https://videos.fsci.in/videos/local?a-state=42.

FSCI's Peertube instance hasn't been updated since probably when it was setup back during COVID times. It's running v2.2.0, while latest Peertube is v5.2.1

It cost ~5.09 euro per month.

Do we want to keep the instance around as it involves costs and need full planning to bring to latest version.

In the poll the responses were:

Snehal Shekatkar: Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update

Although unfortunately I don't have much time and relevant expertise to support this, I can very much support this financially. So I would like to keep it going. If someone is also willing to teach me somewhat, I might try to intermittently take care on the server side.

Pirate Praveen: Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update

If we find new volunteers, we should keep. I think we should keep the poll open for longer (1 week at least and even 2 weeks) and ideally ask around more widely for volunteers before we shut down. Unless we ask explicitly for help people outside the community won't know we need help.

Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer: Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update

Need to update and add videos frequently. Steps should be taken to make the instance more publicly available

Raju Devidas: Sunset videos.fsci.in

Unless we/someone else are actively/intermmitently using the service, we better sunset the service to actively focus on used services.

Akshay: Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update

I volunteer to update it. But I have no opinion on cost of maintenance. Alternatively we can just keep a static archive of the videos in some server.

The poll was unfortunately settled only on September 14, 2025 with outcome to update.

Pirate Praveen: @Akshay are you still interested in updating peertube? Akshay: @Pirate Praveen Oh, I don't remember what happened here. I think I volunteered because there were a couple of videos of mine present. I think the same logic applies. I don't have a comment on cost, but I can keep it updated. If it is being sunset I can do the static archive too. Will do later this week