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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by zinclozenge on Friday August 19, 2022 @01:48PM (#32524058)
How would you do it if you had much more modest scale requirements? Say a few thousand simultaneous viewers. I'm kicking around an idea for a niche content video streaming service, but I don't know much about the tech stacks for it.
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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by rakoo on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:22PM (#32525025)
Use bittorrent. Every viewer is also a source. The more people watch, the less your servers are loaded.

Bittorrent is built towards "offline" viewing. Try Peertube for a stack that is more built for streaming and has bittorrent sharing built-in (actually webtorrent, because the browser doesn't speak raw TCP or UDP, but the idea is the same)

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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by vagrantJin on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:21PM (#32524430)
A few thousand?

Just use Nginx and a backend lang of your choosing.

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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by zinclozenge on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:53PM (#32524760)
Not even bother using a cdn?
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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by ev1 on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:26PM (#32526765)
For low-traffic niche content that might not be a cache hit in the first place in every region?

I wouldn't bother. Unless you use storage at the CDN - which is probably very not cost effective for you.

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