Cost of bandwidth?

1 points by salman89 15y ago ↗ HN

If I were to start a media streaming site (video), what could I estimate in terms of rough numbers the cost of bandwidth to be? Just trying to get an idea of revenues vs expenses for an idea.

Thanks

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tilt 15y ago ↗

There are many services around but I guess this could give you a hint

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing

jjunkin 15y ago ↗

he.net: $600/month Includes 42U Cabinet, Power, 100 Mbps bandwidth. That is a lot of bandwidth. This is where I colo.

johng 15y ago ↗

Also keep in mind that bandwidth is not necessarily going to be your most expensive component. Power and cooling usually is. If you have hardware you need to fire it up somewhere and cool it somewhere. Most colo's charge more for power and cooling then for bandwidth.

Just my 2c.