this only applies to situations where your content is large in terms of byte count.
For textual content, there's barely any real cost tbh. a caching layer solves most of your problems with edge node speed (so you pay cloudflare or akamai or some such).
> The value-add of these services is pretty substantial, though.
For videos (and music to a degree), it's unique in that the content size is huge, and people are increasingly impatient. I have no doubt that youtube infrastructure cannot be replicated by a private person. Therefore, their services are not "value-adds", but the primary value, and your video content is the "value add".
For textual content, there's barely any real cost tbh. a caching layer solves most of your problems with edge node speed (so you pay cloudflare or akamai or some such).
> The value-add of these services is pretty substantial, though.
For videos (and music to a degree), it's unique in that the content size is huge, and people are increasingly impatient. I have no doubt that youtube infrastructure cannot be replicated by a private person. Therefore, their services are not "value-adds", but the primary value, and your video content is the "value add".