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Context: ex-early-twitch engineer. The economics on this are confusing to me; if they’re hosting a “repeater”, they’re paying for bandwidth in/out, and that’s
by dayjah 6y ago
Context: ex-early-twitch engineer.
The economics on this are confusing to me; if they’re hosting a “repeater”, they’re paying for bandwidth in/out, and that’s expensive.
If the streaming software is sending to multiple locations; the stability will be low (assuming folks become outbound b/w limited from their home conn).
Am I missing something obvious here?
At twitch we needed a heck of a lot of interconnecting with various providers to make our service viable.
Edit: https://restream.io/blog/restream-series-a-funding/ https://restream.io/blog/restream-series-a-funding/ - goes someway toward answering my q.
- radley 6y agoHuh? They're not streaming to thousands of viewers - they're just forwarding to a few services. That's nothing.
- dayjah 6y agoOh, right! I was obvi missing something simple. You’re right, my b: they only relay to a few services so it’s keep their costs low. I guess I’m just so conditioned to think about video going direct to consumer that I missed that. Sorry for the noise :)