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> Soon, he moved WVRN to the internet. But a live feed proved prohibitively expensive.“It was like $3,000 per month to have a stream that could handle 10 listen
by sublinear 2y ago
> Soon, he moved WVRN to the internet. But a live feed proved prohibitively expensive.“It was like $3,000 per month to have a stream that could handle 10 listeners. I saw it as the future and I wanted to be a part of it. But I was too far ahead of that wave and it crashed on me,” Louvis said. “I couldn’t sell enough ads to recoup the cost.”
Can anyone explain why this was so expensive back then?
- schlauerfox 2y agomaybe it was a 1.5mbps t1 line cost at 128kbps/stream would be about 10 streams? Maybe he was paying a hosting company for bandwidth? Not sure from the article.