[opendtv] Re: CDNs
- From: Kon Wilms <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:51:45 -0700
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:26 AM, <dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, the CDN was the second option on my list.
>
> Aren't CDNs expensive? Last I checked, we couldn't afford them. We were
> looking at $1K per month for our delivery and storage needs. I suppose to
> someone that monetizes it, that isn't too bad. But for us, we couldn't
> afford it and don't have that kind of income. I personally think it is the
> way to go, but we have other barriers.
Not necessarily. What exactly are you looking for in terms of gigs and
storage per month? Are you intending to have a large archive of which
only a small portion is available each month? Do you want to target
mobile, handheld and desktop simultaneously? And equally important,
are you looking at having custom players for your streams (pseudo-live
with prerolls, ads, branding, etc.)
Off the bat $1k is high but it depends on what you're pushing/storing
as I mentioned.
All of these factor into the equation. If you go for the large CDNs
they won't care about customization, and will give you a cheap and
sometimes overprovisioned price per gig just to get your business. Be
prepared for possible 'contract renegotiations' when it comes up for
renewal, however :P.
If you go for the small and fly by night CDNs they are going to spin
up some AWS instances (they never advertise the fact that they use
AWS, they simply refer to their CDN as a 'global network') and pass on
the cost to you which, with a lot of storage requirements, is going to
exceed a large CDN for cost. They also won't do the custom software.
Your best bet is to find a CDN that owns their own facility (not a few
racks, the actual datacenter) *cough* and is able to reduce the cost
of CDN services and make it up on either dev fee commitment or server
colocation (in which case you manage your storage on your servers and
connect to the actual CDN via internal datacenter connectivity, in
which case the cost to you for bandwidth up to the CDN is $0).
Cheers
Kon
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