#bandwidth-costs on Hacker News

2 stories tagged bandwidth-costs, newest first.

Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

335 points by pinakinathc 2 years ago | 312 comments

An Ask HN thread asking how YouTube covers the storage, encoding, and bandwidth costs of free video streaming, and whether ad revenue is enough.

1499 points by laubonghaudoi 2 years ago | 671 comments

A Reddit r/webdev post in which a user reports receiving a $104,500 Netlify bill for a simple static site.