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How about using something like Websockets to reduce outbound cost? It'll have anyone on the page viewing the media also host the media for their fellow web surf
by DDR0 9y ago
How about using something like Websockets to reduce outbound cost? It'll have anyone on the page viewing the media also host the media for their fellow web surfers. If I recall, there is a socket-based bittorrent library floating around somewhere - https://github.com/webtorrent https://github.com/webtorrent might be a good start. :)
Serve the static web-page files from a decent host. Seed the 5tb of content from the cheap host.
- voltagex_ 9y agoAnd what if your users are charged for upstream bandwidth?
- solarkraft 9y agoThat's a. Unlikely, where have you seen this before? b. A reasonable price to view the page.
- AzMoo_ 9y agoUploads are metered on loads of Internet plans in Australia.
- voltagex_ 9y agoI was thinking more of phone data plans - they're even more limited (although strangely Australia's got some of the best plans at the moment outside of Europe)
- argestes 9y agoMobile internet plans mostly charge for upstream too. (I'm from Turkey)