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I think it was quite reasonable to doubt youtube had a future. The bandwidth costs still must be enormous and back then more so. Only a few companies had the c
by codexon 11y ago
I think it was quite reasonable to doubt youtube had a future.
The bandwidth costs still must be enormous and back then more so. Only a few companies had the clout to negotiate favorable prices for bandwidth.
Even now I am surprised that they are either making so much from ads or pay so little in bandwidth that they can do what Vimeo charges for free.
- hhw 11y agoGoogle has a lot of settlement free peering, so the bandwidth itself is going to be close to free, although the infrastructure to support it would not be. They also don't have to worry about being present in as many peering locations as most networks of comparable capacity, as their services aren't that latency sensitive, which also helps reduce their infrastructure costs.