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How much does a niche video site cost to run?
I need to figure out how much it will cost to run a niche video site per month, server and hosting wise. (a niche video site would be like 5min.com)
What they might look like at 1k users, 10k, 100k, 1M, etc...and, any variables you think that will affect costs (obviously aside from dev/design/integration).
Thanks
- byoung2 16y agoI looked into this a while back for a project I was considering. These sites came in handy: Flash Video Bitrate Calculator: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/apps/flv_bitrate_calculator/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/apps/flv_bitrate_calculato... Video storage and streaming: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ and http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ Video encoding: http://www.encoding.com/pricing/ http://www.encoding.com/pricing/ Basically you just have to figure out how much storage will cost for all the videos (take the bitrates times the length times the number of videos), and bandwidth (number of videos viewed per visitor times the total bandwidth viewed per video). You'll probably see that it is very expensive if you are not charging for access.
- levib 16y agoAwesome stuff. Thank you :)