“web3” stuff can use
IPFS, which I linked to
in my prior post, among other options for storing data that are too big or otherwise unsuitable on the blockchain.
I'm a member of a discord group that stores archives of old stuff (we're talking magazines, siterips, video documentaries etc) on an open directory, who currently possess several hundred TB of historic data, and they know a guy who tried to host all that stuff on IPFS.
Long story short, it split all the hosted data into many chunks which caused extreme throttling on his HDDs and he also got a bunch of unnecessary traffic from the rest of the IPFS network who are trying to go to other locations.
Videos are transferred great (the legal ones) though along P2P torrents, I don't get why that isn't used more.