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Bandwidth prices are dropping every year, but ATM it's very difficult to be profitable with video streaming. Like crazy hard. 200k views of a 250mb video is 40t
by CryoLogic 9y ago
Bandwidth prices are dropping every year, but ATM it's very difficult to be profitable with video streaming. Like crazy hard. 200k views of a 250mb video is 40tb bandwidth which is $3600-$4600 streaming from Amazon S3 depending on if you use CloudFront or not.
You basically need your own data centers and wholesale bandwidth, aka scale.
- jopsen 9y agoAmazon is pretty expensive for bandwidth, scaleway.com sells cheap VMs and baremetal with 200 MBit/s unmetered bandwidth at like 3 EUR/mo. Building a reliable service, handling peak, etc. is hard, and driving down latency will probably cost more... But 40TB can be done a lot cheaper than 3-4k USD.
- c0rkscrew 9y ago>scaleway.com sells cheap VMs and baremetal with 200 MBit/s unmetered bandwidth I'm sure if you rented hundreds of those and actually used the bandwidth they would kick you out.