Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021)

https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2021/nitter-bandwidth/

by app4soft • 4 years ago

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app4soft2• 4 years ago

Thread on Twitter via Nitter:[0]

[0] https://nitter.net/wezm/status/1430670384362184704#m

AustinDev• 4 years ago

'Tweet not found.'

wezm2• 4 years ago

Nitter seems broken at the moment. My original tweet https://twitter.com/wezm/status/1430670384362184704

DoItToMe812• 4 years ago

2.5 TB isn't very much in a month, especially not for a proxy of a much bigger site. Vultr's bandwidth is notoriously tight for the price, too. I feel like this is the wrong service for that type of host.

hampereddustbin• 4 years ago

Cloud pricing for bandwidth is really limiting for a lot of applications. For comparison you can get a 1gbit/s line with your server on OVH EU for about $100/mo, which you could utilize for a theoretical ~321TiB/mo total transferred

wezm2• 4 years ago

It's a lot more than my little personal server usually uses in a month though.

technion• 4 years ago

It's sure a cost for someone used to working with aws though.

sli• 4 years ago

Vultr wants me to complete a captcha just to view their website, which tells me an awful lot about them already.

jacooper2• 4 years ago

Try hosting a piped(YouTube) instance :) Also just use Hetzner, Vultur pricing is outrageous

DoItToMe812• 4 years ago

BuyVM offers a plan comparable to their 12 dollar one for 7 dollars, and you get at least 16 TB of monthly bandwidth. I say 'at least' because they do not cut you off, and throttling is manually done and a last resort.

jacooper2• 4 years ago

From a quick visit, Hetzner's advantage is ram size.

For 9.70€ you get 8gb on Hetzner but only 4Gb on the 15$ plan on BuyVM.

arcastroe• 4 years ago

Nitter doesn’t have a robots.txt by default so the first thing I did was fork it and add one that blocked all robots.

Glad to see this has been resolved since then, on the official repository https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/631

I am considering running a public instance for personal use and this was one of my concerns as well

Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance (2021)

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