Anyone self-hosting Invidious for personal use and has experienced his IP banned? (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by buedi@feddit.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

I am thinking about self-hosting Invidious just for personal use in one household. So this will generate of course much less traffic than the public hosted ones with probably hundreds or thousands videos watched in a short timeframe.

However, I read that it is not unusual for Invidous instances to get IP banned and I wonder if this is more a problem with the public instances or if someone here hosts it just for itself and had to cope with that too.

To be precise: The plan is to self-host it in my homelab, accessible only from the LAN for the few people living here.

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[-] ecliptik@lemmy.ecliptik.com 3 points 11 months ago

I self-host Piped and Invidious in containers with networking plumbed to glueton[1] on a VPN.

This way all traffic going to youtube from piped/invidious comes from the VPN, and can easily switch regions/providers if there's service degradation. Also mixes traffic with other VPN users to lower fingerprinting.

This patterns works well with almost any self-hosted service.

https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I really need to sit down and figure out how to do this.

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