Americans who host media servers for friends & family and are forced to use a cable-based ISP, what is your upload/download setup? Also, what is your rationale for your speeds?
Xfinity is not cheap, upload speeds are garbage and although I want my users to have a great experience, I don’t want to spend tons of money to host this?
Do you make your users pay for access? That seems pretty shitty imo but I’m hosting encodes (no remuxes) but between my various non-local family members and a couple buddies from college, I’m maxing out my upload speeds and need to figure out what to do.
You can get away with a pretty low bitrate for most. As others have said, set the egress upload limit in the app to whatever you prefer, and just be ready to transcode.
Never charge for access to your server in any way. That is officially 100% illegal. If you can’t do it without charging, you can’t do it
Yeah I wasn’t planning on charging. Legality aside, it’s just a shitty thing to do.
I share mine with about a dozen friends and family, and some have offered to pay me. I didn’t think about it being illegal (although, of course it is) but the reason I wouldn’t charge is that I don’t want anyone having expectations about it working. It’s worked smoothly for about a year, and if it breaks I’ll fix it on my own time.