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Or you can buy the CDN service from a myriad of companies in the world. It only takes money to get servers and bandwidth in many places.
by JetSpiegel 8y ago
Or you can buy the CDN service from a myriad of companies in the world. It only takes money to get servers and bandwidth in many places.
- petra 8y agoTrue. But depending on what's you guess on how much it costs for netflix to get a content hour watched by a user(maybe ~$0.1-0.2), streaming costs may become meaningful, and higher streaming costs becomes a strategic disadvantage.
- waffle_ss 8y agoExactly. Excepting Cloudflare which is free, CDNs are expensive (or at least more expensive than I think people realize). Netflix says it uses about 3GB of bandwidth per hour for streaming HD-quality video. CloudFront for one will charge you $0.26 for that 3GB-hour. It's pretty easy to see how binge watchers will rack up pretty high CDN/bandwidth bills.