I just want to pay a quick tribute to this post over on Streamingmedia.com that talks about how inexpensive bandwidth has become in the last ten years. There are a ton of our customers who ask about streaming video costs with the worry that a scaling audience will increase their costs beyond affordability. To that I say, “well, good thing it’s 2010 and not 1998.” The reality is that bandwidth cost has dropped 99.98% in the last ten years. Yes, 99.98% (if you’re Netflix anyway). Posting videos is FREE on YouTube, Facebook and countless other sites, but unheard of ten years ago. Amazing how far we’ve come.
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