• TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Massive up front investment. Millions of dollars of hardware, distributed to be close to end users to minimize latency, all with their own redundant internet connections.

    Petabyte level storage- that’s thousands of terabytes. Video storage takes up a lot of space, and storage drives fail. For every piece of equipment you have to buy a second one to run in parallel, that way if one fails the other can keep the system running. Oh, and you need a third so you can replace the one that failed.

    Hosting in general is a very high investment prospect. You can do it Inexpensively using something like plex, but that isn’t very scalable.