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Originally Posted by XSAXS
My uneducated guesstimate...
25,000 uniques * 500MB each = 12.5TB/day = 375TB/month
375TB delivered through MaxCDN @ $.03/GB = $11,250/Month
Plus: 2TB RAID-10 media box.
Plus: Separate SSD DB box.
$12,000 - $12,500 / month @ 25,000 uniques give or take.
Where am I wrong? What am I missing?
I know there are people on this board who know this stuff WAY better than I do.
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I get asked this question alot. It is *IMPOSSIBLE* to know this because:
- We don't know the bitrate of your videos
- We don't know how many you host vs are sponsor hosted
- We don't know how many pageviews per unique user your site will get (2 vs 10 is 5x difference)
- We don't know how much of each movie on average each person views vs how much of it is actually downloaded (They download 3 minute of movie in 10 seconds, and change it after 10 seconds)
- etc etce
That being said, your estimates are way, way off, and to use MaxCDN for this project would be insane.
Regarding bandwidth usage, I would say an *AVERAGE* - and take this with a grain of salt bcause it can swing each way - if you are hosting all the videos yourself then 10k UV is around 70-80mbits if you have relatively productive traffic that watches several videos. Your cost for this site would be closer to $300-600/month depending on the host, and you certainly don't need a separate db server to support 25k UV