NodeTube: Build Your Own Self-hosted YouTube Alternative
NodeTube is an excellent open-source platform that provides all the features that you need for hosting your videos, audios, and images. It provides a comprehensive set of features, including livestreaming and built-in monetization, that make it an magnificent alternative to YouTube. With NodeTube, you can easily upload your videos, audios, and images and share them with your audience.
Additionally, NodeTube allows you to monetize your content, which means that you can earn money by creating and sharing quality content on the platform. Moreover, NodeTube is open-source, which means that you can customize it to your needs and preferences. You can add new features, modify the existing ones, or integrate it with other platforms and tools to create a unique and powerful media hosting solution for your website or business.
NodeTube is an impressive platform that provides everything that you need to create and share quality multimedia content with your audience while retaining complete control over your content and monetization strategy.
NodeTube is a website that uses NodeJS, MongoDB, Redis, and ffmpeg. It shows information on web pages using Pug and gets information from .env.settings and .env.private files.
Why should you consider using NodeTube?
Reasons to use NodeTube as an Instance Host:
- Built in monetization for instance administrators: Users can optionally pay a monthly fee through Stripe to gain certain privileges which are able to be adjusted by the administrator but by default allow private and unlisted uploads, an increased maximum file-size limit from 500MB to 2GB, and livestreaming capabilities
- You can run an instance either with a cloud provider, a VPS or dedicated server or even locally using a built-in
ngrokintegration. - Follow a few short steps and get setup on top of cloud providers and run for pennies a day with built-in Heroku and BackBlaze integrations, even with little technical knowledge
- Own your own data: data is happier when it's not in the hands of a multi-billion dollar corporation and plus Google knows enough about us already
- Built-in features to get you started on Day 1 including moderation abilities, built-in analytics, administration interface, built-in reCAPTCHA
- Support open-source software, help decentralize and open the internet.
- Improve your software and server administration skills
- Build and foster a community
Reasons to use NodeTube as a Free User:
- No email necessary for registration. Optionally add an email to have password recovery functionality
- No ads
- Not tracked by a multibillion-dollar corporation
- Public IP stays private, unlike some other YouTube alts
- Upload all forms of content (video, audio, image)
- 500 MB max upload size
- Able to load your account with credit and support creators directly [Note: This functionality exists in the NodeTube source tube but finding a payment processor to support this/legal implications are more difficult to pull off in practice.]
- Support open-source software, help decentralize and open the internet.
- Engage with and help grow a community
Reasons To Use NodeTube as a Paid User:
- Ability to monetize your account and be paid directly by the instance users [Note: This functionality exists in the NodeTube source tube but finding a payment processor to support this/legal implications are more difficult to pull off in practice.]
- Larger upload size, up to 2 GB
- Private and unlisted uploads
- Livestreaming
- Plus Badge to show your support
- Support open-source software with your hard-earned money, helping out in a big way to decentralize and open the internet
- Allow others to receive the benefits of using NodeTube as a free user including not being tracked by a multibillion-dollar corporation and receiving their media ad free
License
NodeTube is an open-source project released under the MIT license.
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