PeerTube/FAQ.md

FAQ

If nobody watches a video, is it seeded?

Yes, the origin server always seeds videos uploaded on it through Webseed.

What is WebSeed?

It is a BitTorrent extension that allow a server to seed a file through HTTP. It just need to serve statically a file, and then the clients will request chunks with a Content-Range HTTP header.

If a client requests each chunk of a video through HTTP, the server be overloaded!

Not really. Reverse proxies like Nginx handle very well requests of static files. In my tests it can send chunks at 10MB/s without consuming more than 5% of CPU on a very small VPS.

An index of all videos of servers you follow won't be too large for small servers?

No, 1000000 videos will represent around 2GB on PostgreSQL. It is acceptable for a video platform.

What kind of videos can I upload?

WEBM, MP4 or OGV videos.

I want to change my host or move to HTTPS, how can I do that?

If you already have followers, you can't.

If you don't: update your configuration and run NODE_ENV=production npm run update-host to update the torrent files.