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Has anyone considered hosts like OVH/SoYouStart? They have unmetered bandwidth and are quite affordable, and can be even cheaper on Kimsufi if you're willing to

Has anyone considered hosts like OVH/SoYouStart? They have unmetered bandwidth and are quite affordable, and can be even cheaper on Kimsufi if you're willing to compromise on the SLA. Here are servers for around 40$/month with 250Mbps with unmetered traffic: https://www.soyoustart.com/en/essential-servers/ https://www.soyoustart.com/en/essential-servers/ Kimsufi is even cheaper with 100Mbps unmetered starting at around 5$: http://www.kimsufi.com/en/servers.xml http://www.kimsufi.com/en/servers.xml

eropple 8y ago
Of course; it'd be pretty shortsighted not to, yeah? Setting aside OVH/SoYouStart's generally kinda crap support (and maybe it's just that I do devops professionally but even for my own stuff I expect some support, not emoji shrugs and a lack of English), "unmetered bandwidth" doesn't come with a wide enough pipe. 250Mbps is 40 users at 6Mbps/user, assuming nearly perfect bandwidth usage. One of my weekly streams hits 20-25 without us having advertised yet; these are alpha tests/pre-production streams. We should hit 50-60 when we go for-realsies live, if not more. The next step, then, is to build your own star topology to stream to users. And your own load balancing. All to, uh, not make money on it and to, uh, not have as good of an experience either for the viewer or for the creator as you do when using Twitch or Mixer or YouTube (I don't care how ~~fierce~~ your Twitter game is, a Twitch notification is gonna get you further than the hot tweets). Companies are willing to burn a lot of money and make you the beneficiary. So, right now, I do, and I tend to think even HN types are best off doing likewise.