Hosting a federated wiki is nearly free. A wiki farm is a small Node app and its pages are kilobytes of JSON. Video is what costs. Archiving clips into the Anarchive means paying twice: once to store the bytes, and again every time somebody watches them.
## Two Prices
Storage is priced per terabyte-month. Egress — moving a byte out to a viewer — is priced per gigabyte. Vendors compete hard on the first number and bury the second. Egress Economics works through the traps.
## The Sizes
A two-hour talk transcoded to 420px lands at 200–350 MB. A short Fair Use Clip is nearer 8 MB. A thousand terabyte-months of pages would still be smaller than one archived conference talk.
An 8 MB clip viewed a thousand times moves 8 GB. Popular media is an egress problem wearing a storage costume.
## The Wiki is Not the Cost
Our $40 a month buys managed Nextcloud and a co-op that carries the pager. Video assets are write-once files. They never change and they do not need sync semantics — Nextcloud is the most expensive possible place to keep them. Moving them out is Trim the Coop Bill, the cheapest phase of Anarchive Hosting.
# See
- Anarchive Hosting — the plan this page motivates - Egress Economics, Cheap Object Storage - Fair Use Clip, Media Plan — where the clips come from - Versions of Media Assets, Hosting Audio — earlier research on this site