TV hosting

[webguru72]

How much traffic goes with tv hosting..... It is intresting. anyone has any idea? what is the cost behind it?

 

[Craig]

Media hosting = high bandwidth usage.

It all depends on the sort of TV/Streaming being hosted (IE live feeds, watchers etc).

 

[CollarHosting]

Do you mean online video hosting or like actual broadcast TV?

 

[Chris.S]

Alot of bandwidth

Your looking at alot of bandwidth.

But this is possible you just need to contact a datacenter about getting a high bandwidth internet connection

 

[qwidjib0]

Lots of bandwidth, lots of cost.

YouTube has really the only genuinely successful model at this that's really out there - and it just so haapppppens that they own their own carrier network:

http://www.fixedorbit.com/AS/36/AS36561.htm

If you were as much as a geek as me - you might also notice that they're only peering with the very cheapest carrier networks out there by that information (Cogent, Hurricane Electric, Limelight).


Google's video deal has picked up a little steam on YouTube recently as well, but you might remember that them buying up massive amounts of dark fiber not long before that launched (try 'Googling that' for some irony). From there, sites get by by just running tons of ads, in and around their videos, but there's no doubt the bandwidth costs are not at all easy to support financially no matter who you are.

 

[bobby2guns2003]

Lots of bandwidth, lots of cost.

YouTube has really the only genuinely successful model at this that's really out there - and it just so haapppppens that they own their own carrier network:

http://www.fixedorbit.com/AS/36/AS36561.htm

If you were as much as a geek as me - you might also notice that they're only peering with the very cheapest carrier networks out there by that information (Cogent, Hurricane Electric, Limelight).


Google's video deal has picked up a little steam on YouTube recently as well, but you might remember that them buying up massive amounts of dark fiber not long before that launched (try 'Googling that' for some irony). From there, sites get by by just running tons of ads, in and around their videos, but there's no doubt the bandwidth costs are not at all easy to support financially no matter who you are.

Youtube isnt on top:
1. Yahoo Video 21.1
2. MySpace Videos 20.1
3. YouTube 16.1
4. MSN Video 14.6
5. AOL Video 10.5
6. Heavy 8.3
7. Google Video 6.8
8. Ebaum's World 5.4
9. iFilm 3.3
10. Break 2.6

11. Metacafe 2.0
12. Atom Films 1.3
13. Veoh 0.7
14. Grouper 0.5
15. Revver 0.2