Re:Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet
by dgreensp on Thursday May 30, 2013 @11:23AM
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To be more constructive:
- Be competitive on price and performance for the basic CDN use case
- Amazon's strategy is to pass on their own costs with a very small margin. If you are serving each Zillow thumbnail by resizing it once in a while on a GPU and caching it in RAM, your costs should be tiny. Then you are just over-charging for bandwidth.
Biggest take-away is think hard about the pricing model. Maybe have big tiers with flat prices and pass on the bandwidth at cost.
- Be competitive on price and performance for the basic CDN use case
- Amazon's strategy is to pass on their own costs with a very small margin. If you are serving each Zillow thumbnail by resizing it once in a while on a GPU and caching it in RAM, your costs should be tiny. Then you are just over-charging for bandwidth.
Biggest take-away is think hard about the pricing model. Maybe have big tiers with flat prices and pass on the bandwidth at cost.