How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livevideo.com

Post by korzun » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 1:54 PM UTC

nemothekid wrote: post #143

korzun wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Akamai? Really. Either way, most of the ad revenue tends to come from the United States; the CDN is far from a requirement.

How would you build a video streaming service without a CDN? A CDN doesn't just solve the content distribution problem - it also solves the bandwidth problem. With a 1Gig connection you can only serve ~45 concurrents streaming 1080p. If you wanted to support more than 45 concurrents, you would need 1. To distribute content to separate instances 2. A routing infrastructure to reliably route connections to that content…

My point is, you don't need an expensive global CDN if your end goal is to optimize for ad-revenue within the U.S market. I don't know why you stuck on the CDN, and it sounds like you are using it as a hammer to achieve scalability.

Post by nemothekid » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 6:28 PM UTC

korzun wrote: post #151

nemothekid wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you build a video streaming service without a CDN? A CDN doesn't just solve the content distribution problem - it also solves the bandwidth problem. With a 1Gig connection you can only serve ~45 concurrents streaming 1080p. If you wanted to support more than 45 concurrents, you would need 1. To distribute content to separate instances 2. A routing infrastructure to reliably route connections to that content…

My point is, you don't need an expensive global CDN if your end goal is to optimize for ad-revenue within the U.S market. I don't know why you stuck on the CDN, and it sounds like you are using it as a hammer to achieve scalability.

I'm stuck on the CDN because you need something like a CDN to serve any meaningful number of concurrents. The numbers I quoted for cloudfront were for the US.

If you believe otherwise, please enlighten me on how you can build a HD video streaming service for 100 concurrents without a CDN. Like I mentioned, on a 1GbE connection, you can serve a theoretical max of 45 users on one node. Where do you go from there without something that looks like CDN?

Re: How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livevideo.com

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