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A comment on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by jononor on Sunday May 19, 2024 @04:47PM (#40409634)
Assuming 10 Mbit/s per stream that would serve 1 million concurrent streams 24/7. If we assume people watch 2.4 hours per day on average, it could support 10 million active users. Or a cost to serve for bandwidth alone of 1 USD/user per year.
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Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by 55555 on Monday May 20, 2024 @05:06AM (#40413613)
Yeah I'm coming to similar numbers. I guess this is why the Cloudflare CTO has said several times on hackernews that at scale bandwidth is free.
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Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by jgrahamc on Monday May 20, 2024 @05:15AM (#40413659)
Pretty sure I didn't say that, but I know who did: Cloudflare's CEO (eastdakota). https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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