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Assuming 10 Mbit/s per stream that would serve 1 million concurrent streams 24/7. If we assume people watch 2.4 hours per day on average, it could support 10 million active users. Or a cost to serve for bandwidth alone of 1 USD/user per year.



Yeah I'm coming to similar numbers. I guess this is why the Cloudflare CTO has said several times on hackernews that at scale bandwidth is free.


Pretty sure I didn't say that, but I know who did: Cloudflare's CEO (eastdakota). https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...




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