Re:Programmer behind YouPorn empire arrested in Belgium
by true_religion on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @07:13AM
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AWS is the most expensive "CDN" that I've ever seen in my life. Their prices rival Akamai and their service certainly doesn't.
With volume, you can get CDN pricing to 1 cent/page. The adult market, if nothing else, is a place where even mid-range sites can have massive volume and cut special deals.
With 50 Mb/video, you can do 20 video's for 1 Gb of traffic. Which, at AWS cost 12 cents. Let's say you'd pay half that at a cheaper CDN, 6 cents. You would, just for transporting the video, need to make 6/20=0.3 cents/page. That's $3 CPM, which seems high. And this is only for transporting the video, not the other infrastructure needed. Not so sure that's a winning business-model.
To be fair, we also looked into setting up our own servers, some places have a few TB traffic with a $50 VPS, but than you need a lot more sysadmin work.