Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to serve up video?
If you were building a scalable video streaming service (netflix-like) what would be some of the most economical services for bandwidth?
It doesn't work everywhere (for example if you need sub-second latency) but it's heaps better than stuff like webtorrent for live/vod video (something I checked before I joined). We can typically offload 90-98% to P2P meaning we can offload 90% of the traffic to P2P.
We don't typically talk about cost savings (we talk about improving quality of experience for end viewers of the video) but cost savings is definitely there.
This is the first time I'm talking about my job here (usually I'm all Node.js and JavaScipt in HN) but if you want to talk business shoot me an email at benji @ company name.com and mention you're from HN.