NYC-1 is our main server - it's a fully dedicated server with way more OP specs than needed. This is how my hosts are one of the most performant and reliable.

• CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 2.6GHz
• RAM: 128GB
• STORAGE: 2TB SSD
• NETWORK: 1Gbps Unmetered
• HOST: RoyaleHosting
• LOCATION: Nearby New York City
• COST: €90 per month (roughly $97 a month)

CAL-1 is a standard VPS hosted in the heart of Silicon Valley, allowing for the best connection to most popular services (i.e. YouTube.)

• CPU: AMD EPYC 7402P 2.8GHz (2 vCPUS)
• RAM: 5GB
• STORAGE: 60GB SSD
• NETWORK: 750Mbps Unmetered (during congestion, this can go as low as 2.5Mbps)
• HOST: Torando VPS
• LOCATION: Silicon Valley
• COST: $20 per month

PAR-1 is a low powered dedicated server hosted in Paris. This will be replaced soon with a VPS with a dedicated IPv6 subnet. This is why you don't see a lot of stuff running on there.

• CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220 3.1Ghz
• RAM: 8GB (DDR3)
• STORAGE: 2x 1TB (HDD)
• NETWORK: 1Gbps Unmetered
• HOST: OneProvider
• LOCATION: Nearby Paris
• COST: $16 per month

As you can tell, running these all isn't cheap. I am currently paying over $100 out of pocket, solely for the sake of others to use these. If you want to help out, you can donate to me at Liberapay.

(Please note that I'm not able to accept payments over Stripe due to legal nonsense. I'll be sorting out a fix for this soon, and possibly adding GitHub Sponsors to remedy this.)

To be 100% crystal clear - Donations will never be required for this service to run. Unless I get fired from my job for whatever reason and can't find a new one in time to pay for this, I will always be paying the remaining cost out of pocket. This is merely set up if you or someone else wants to help support me, and by extension, the frontend developers who make these.

We have a basic URL shortener system set up for these services. You can access it at ggt.bz. Just replace the ggtyler.dev part of the URL with ggt.bz and you're good to go.

Have a specific server location you like to use? Go to ggt.bz first, select the location you prefer, and now any link you visit through that will use that location. (The exception being including the location in the URL itself.)

Services are restarted hourly to ensure they're running smoothly (with a few exceptions.) These also run update checks, to make sure they're updated. These are spread out across the hour to prevent the server from being overloaded. Restart times are as follows:

• Invidious - :00 - :05
  • Invidious is set up with a much more performant setup.
  • Because of this, hourly restarts don't affect the service at all.
  • However, there is a full service restart every 6 hours on automatic IPv6 changes, which may stop videos, albeit briefly.
• Cobalt - :00
  • This is only restarted on 0:00 UTC to prevent interruptions to downloads.
• RedLib - :06
• Piped - :08
• Breezewiki - :12
• Beatbump - :16
• Hyperpipe - :20
• SearXNG - :24
• SafeTwitch - :28
• SimplyTranslate - :32
• LibreTranslate - :36
• Lingva - :40
• Mozhi - :44
• LibreY - :48
• Poke - :52
  • This only restarts if there are any new commits.