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YouTube probably requires more bandwidth per user than all the YCombinator funded sites combined. Maybe Justin.tv is the exception.

palish 19y ago
Another huge bandwidth consumer is http://www.ytmnd.com http://www.ytmnd.com It's a site that lets you upload a gif image, a sound, and some text. You pick a subdomain (for example, "something"). Then it puts all those on http://something.ytmnd.com http://something.ytmnd.com. Each day, around 100,000 of these are viewed, so it chews up a huge amount of bandwidth. Max is the owner of that site, and he's been living off of the advertising revenue at about the same living status as someone working full time at McDonald's. Last I heard, the advertising pulls in about $20k per month, and the bandwidth takes about $18k per month. He works all day and night on it.. it's amazing. I don't know why he hasn't sought investors or anything like that, but it's a huge community (even though it consists largely of teenagers). Any investors who like investing in that sort of thing might want to contact him.
- staunch 19y ago
  The last thing we need is ytmnd getting bigger.
  - palish 19y ago
    Mm.. There's some truly hilarious stuff on there. You just have to look for it, which takes some patience. For example, http://shockingcats.ytmnd.com/ http://shockingcats.ytmnd.com/ ... C'mon, you'd have to be dead to not be slightly amused. :) Some just make you think. http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ and http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/ http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/ are two examples. They may not be 100% accurate, but they do make you stop and think about things. Others present issues in an unbiased way, letting you be the judge. http://timbalandtempest.ytmnd.com/ http://timbalandtempest.ytmnd.com/ is one. Like it or not, the guys composing YTMND's community are our youth. Their opinion matters, and they create things they care about.
- steve 19y ago
  always wondered how that was working out for the owners.
  - palish 19y ago
    The whole story's at http://ytmnd.com/news/?news_id=69 http://ytmnd.com/news/?news_id=69 .. it's pretty interesting.
nickb 19y ago
No, Justin.tv is not even close.
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  Not yet. If you define user as someone that life-casts, then yes, it takes more.
- staunch 19y ago
  On a per-user basis it certainly could be. I don't think we have numbers on average stream duration for Justin or the number of videos the average YouTuber watches though. Most of the YC companies don't do anything bandwidth-intensive so it's a pretty meaningless thing to compare.
  - ivankirigin 19y ago
    "Most of the YC companies don't do anything bandwidth-intensive so it's a pretty meaningless thing to compare." That was my initial point. You don't really need to worry about scaling like YouTube. Scaling like Flickr and Facebook makes a bit more sense.
dood 19y ago
Youtube probably uses more than all but the top 0.0001% of sites combined (or some very very small percentage). "All by itself, YouTube comprises 20 percent of all HTTP traffic, or nearly 10 percent of all traffic on the Net. Let's repeat that: one site takes up 10 percent of the bandwidth on the entire Net." [http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/06/19/youtube-comprises-10-of-all-internet-traffic http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/06/19/youtube-compris...]

palish 19y ago

Another huge bandwidth consumer is http://www.ytmnd.com http://www.ytmnd.com It's a site that lets you upload a gif image, a sound, and some text. You pick a subdomain (for example, "something"). Then it puts all those on http://something.ytmnd.com http://something.ytmnd.com. Each day, around 100,000 of these are viewed, so it chews up a huge amount of bandwidth. Max is the owner of that site, and he's been living off of the advertising revenue at about the same living status as someone working full time at McDonald's. Last I heard, the advertising pulls in about $20k per month, and the bandwidth takes about $18k per month. He works all day and night on it.. it's amazing. I don't know why he hasn't sought investors or anything like that, but it's a huge community (even though it consists largely of teenagers). Any investors who like investing in that sort of thing might want to contact him.

staunch 19y ago
The last thing we need is ytmnd getting bigger.
- palish 19y ago
  Mm.. There's some truly hilarious stuff on there. You just have to look for it, which takes some patience. For example, http://shockingcats.ytmnd.com/ http://shockingcats.ytmnd.com/ ... C'mon, you'd have to be dead to not be slightly amused. :) Some just make you think. http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ and http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/ http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/ are two examples. They may not be 100% accurate, but they do make you stop and think about things. Others present issues in an unbiased way, letting you be the judge. http://timbalandtempest.ytmnd.com/ http://timbalandtempest.ytmnd.com/ is one. Like it or not, the guys composing YTMND's community are our youth. Their opinion matters, and they create things they care about.
steve 19y ago
always wondered how that was working out for the owners.
- palish 19y ago
  The whole story's at http://ytmnd.com/news/?news_id=69 http://ytmnd.com/news/?news_id=69 .. it's pretty interesting.

nickb 19y ago

No, Justin.tv is not even close.

ivankirigin 19y ago
Not yet. If you define user as someone that life-casts, then yes, it takes more.
staunch 19y ago
On a per-user basis it certainly could be. I don't think we have numbers on average stream duration for Justin or the number of videos the average YouTuber watches though. Most of the YC companies don't do anything bandwidth-intensive so it's a pretty meaningless thing to compare.
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  "Most of the YC companies don't do anything bandwidth-intensive so it's a pretty meaningless thing to compare." That was my initial point. You don't really need to worry about scaling like YouTube. Scaling like Flickr and Facebook makes a bit more sense.

dood 19y ago

Youtube probably uses more than all but the top 0.0001% of sites combined (or some very very small percentage). "All by itself, YouTube comprises 20 percent of all HTTP traffic, or nearly 10 percent of all traffic on the Net. Let's repeat that: one site takes up 10 percent of the bandwidth on the entire Net." [http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/06/19/youtube-comprises-10-of-all-internet-traffic http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/06/19/youtube-compris...]