Selfhosted @lemmy.world cantankerous_cashew @lemmy.world 1w ago

Post your bandwidth usage

It goes without saying that self hosting uses a lot of bandwidth. But I'm curious.. how much do y'all use? Post your stats!

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My main server has 28 tb up and 8tb down checked via my router.
This is for the Lemmy.World server (just the physical box, not the related VMs). Around 12TB last month.
What exactly are you self-hosting that's gobbling up that much data? I've been self-hosting my website for decades and haven't used that much over all that time let alone in one month.

Most of my bandwidth consumption is from torrents and downloading Steam games, but even that doesn't get me to even 1tb/month.
- Seed more ;)
  
  I seed what you did there.
  
  That's not "self hosting" related tho lol
  
  >:(
- Video is what gobbles up that much data. They likely have friends and family streaming from their media server.
  
  40 TiB per month are 1.3 TiB daily. Even at 10 GiB per movie that's 100 movies every single day. I doubt that is the reason.
Att's usage meter sucks.
- lmaoo this is comical
- Lmao
I've got about 25tb of Anna's seeded, plus ArchiveTeam warrior running. I don't look at my usage lol
no details at the moment, but I upload nearly 1Tb / day of media. so 25TB per month UPLOAD, you can imagine my downloads.
I'm consistently below 30 GB, unless you include local traffic from my fileserver to endpoints (98% movies that I stream locally via. VLC over smb). And even then I usually don't exceed 1 TB.

 igb0  /  yearly

         year        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
          2023     33.97 TiB |   22.90 TiB |   56.87 TiB |   15.86 Mbit/s
          2024    110.69 TiB |   32.26 TiB |  142.95 TiB |   39.76 Mbit/s
          2025     22.20 GiB |    7.14 GiB |   29.34 GiB |    4.35 Mbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------

That looks like me, back when i still had space on my server :(

Anyone wants to donate a couple of 8+ tb drives?
Regarding your usage, you're family name is Stark.

Winter is coming,
Be prepared,
- Tony Stark is always prepared.
About half a terabyte per month. My router doesn't write the logs to disk so I don't have any detailed statistics.
Because bigger is better?
Enough for xfinity to charge their bullshit fee for going over 1.2TB in December. Not enough to justify paying for unlimited data every month.
- I switched partly because of this. Now I pay less and have symmetrical speeds!
Almost 3TB this month.

Most of that was from downloading Stalker 2 and the updates for it, though. Game was fucking huge and a couple of the updates were as big as the whole ass game.
What are people using to monitor this?
- I use the reporting tools on my opnsense box.

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