Louis Rossmann just posted a video on how YouTube’s war against ads is backfiring and I wanted to just ask the question because YT burned money for the vast majority of its existence, but I’m just wondering why is video hosting so expensive in the first place, is it because you need mods to make sure people don’t post CP, legal purposes, videos take too much data, what exactly?
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (15)
sorted by:
In a nutshell - video doesn't compress well, which means YT needs vast amounts of bandwidth and 'hot' storage (also backup), along with the accompanying infrastructure.
Not to mention ongoing costs such as power, staffing, etc.
Video compresses extremely well. The problem is that even when it's compressed, it's still gargantuan.
You are right - to clarify I meant encoded video (basically since it is already compressed).