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I feel like that with a geographically broad area you're not going to want to host this yourself and MUCH rather use someone's services for VOD/live streaming.
by BLanen 8y ago
I feel like that with a geographically broad area you're not going to want to host this yourself and MUCH rather use someone's services for VOD/live streaming. Doing CDN and stuff for video seems like a pain. Additionally for live video.
- toomuchgov 8y agoEh, I have done self-hosted Wowza in the past, which makes sense if you have the bandwidth. You can also get per-hour Wowza AMI EC2 instances, so scale to those when you peak, and fallback to self-hosted for lulls.
- hackcasual 8y agoHuge price difference fixed bandwidth cost vs. CDN.
- AFNobody 8y agoNah. $.04/GB is practical. https://www.keycdn.com/pricing https://www.keycdn.com/pricing
- hackcasual 8y agoVs. something like 0.005/GB for Digital Ocean $5 tier. Practical is very situational, but 10x cheaper is 10x cheaper.
- kyledrake 8y agoThat's still pretty high if we're just considering raw transit costs. The highest rate I would be comfortable paying for a CDN would be $0.015/GB ($0.03/GB in Asia), that's still way above market rates for most IP transit right now. Much better deal (and probably way better CDN) than AWS provides, but AWS egress rates are suicidally bad, especially for high bandwidth stuff like video. If you're doing any serious streaming, avoid AWS like the plague unless you like livestreaming yourself filing for bankruptcy.