Me and nostr:npub1xn9fxlmwj92svvllfkpcrvugkrx2ytfp9luw0w2n7r693jckay2sahvhwl were talking. He said a some type of compression would be useful. Someone got ahold of the pied piper asap.
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You can’t compress compressed data. That’s not how it works. You still lose compare to binary protocol 🐶🐾🫡
Ok. Thanks for clarifying.
Decentralized dats storage is going to be a challenge. Haven't thought through the issues.
This is how we learn!
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. 🐶🐾🫡
Egress charges can get out of control pretty quickly!
What if you used cloudflare R2 with $0 egress charges. If I'm reading their pricing correctly you would only be paying $0.015 per GB of storage. Makes that quite affordable!
They will contact you once you reach certain point, and ask to pay for Enterprise plan. No free lunch 🐶🐾🫡
Of course it's not free. But AWS does well over charge for egress. Some more reasonable pricing is available https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/bandwidth-alliance/
I am well aware of CF offering. I am saying that once you get over certain level of usage you’ll be pushed toward enterprise plan. That may be compatible to AWS, depending on what and how you use. 🐶🐾🫡
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.