The feature is called <a href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#instances-redundancy" target="_blank">"server redundancy"</a> and caches your most popular videos to help serve additional viewers.
These actions aim to propose alternative digital tools to those coming from surveillance capitalism, so that people who do not recognize themselves in such a system can create spaces of freedom.
This button displays a frame in which people who upload videos can display text, images, and links freely (link to Patreon, Tipeee, Paypal, Liberapay...).
This should not be a problem with SSD disks, whereas traditional HDD should be accounted for: typical sustained read rates for a well tuned system with a 7200rpm hard disk should hover around 120 MB/s or 960 Mbit/s. The latter should be enough for a typical 1 Gbit/s network uplink.
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/create-upload-video#upload-a-new-version-of-a-video">Upload a new version of the video</a> (this option must be enabled by your administrator)
Enable <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/configuration#live-streaming">live streaming</a> for your instance
Read the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/configuration#scalability">scalability guide</a> if you plan to have many users or viewers
Enable or disable signup, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/managing-users#registration-approval">approve manually new users</a> or set upload limits
