Replying to Avatar The Fishcake (nostr.build)

CDN is decentralized and you can use many. Hosting your own media is no longer feasible. If you have 25MB video that was viewed 1M times, you already spent 2.5TB of bandwidth. You have 10 of these, and so on. YouTube like services purchase their own transits internet backbone. It’s not cheap. 🐶🐾🫡
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phil 2y ago

Google/YouTube also try and deliver as much content as possible through peering exchanges and also host edge servers within ISPs in order to reduce bandwidth costs and improve performance. Beneficial for both them and the ISP.

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 2y ago

Yep! Very costly if not heavily monetized 🐶🐾🫡

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phil 2y ago

Netflix also does much the same thing and has servers hosted within ISPs for video streaming and so does Akamai who provide the CDN for many other sites.