I agree with you. And as a webmaster, am amazed at what YouTube must spend on bandwidth. But just yesterday the CEO and Founder of Cloudflare commented on HN: “At scale, bandwidth is effectively free.”
He’s no dummy. Which is it?
He’s no dummy. Which is it?
- infrastructure (memory, CPU, disks...): all of which must deal with the huge amounts of data they manage (500+ hours of video uploaded every minute).
- personnel cost (developers, SREs...) (almost) all of whom have substantial salaries that support the gigantic scale (1 billion+ hours of content viewed every day)