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Originally Posted by plsureking
in my opinion the bandwidth costs objection ended at least 10 years ago. only the greediest hosts (aka adult hosts) charge for bandwidth these days. data center connections and network equipment can handle a lot more than they could a decade ago. most mainstream hosts don't charge bandwidth anymore on dedicated servers (esp bare metal). the only hosts i see charging outdated fees like bandwidth are US hosts. they are all way behind Europe.
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Still, comparing traffic usage of a tube vs a paysite is night and day.
Any tube that has 100k+ visitors a day will eventually need a video CDN if they don't want their servers/media storage devices to bottleneck.
You may be able to get by with a network of servers dedicated to serving content, but at some point, you'll plateau and need to make the switch to a CDN. THEN bandwidth becomes an issue and it's expensive.