What it might cost to run a service like Twitch.tv
Today I watched a German reaction video revolving around several unfortunate developments in the gaming industry. Whilst a lot of absolutely valid points were made, one of them was “the server costs of twitch can’t be that relevant to their business”. Now, I’m working in cloud infrastructure and I know, that live video streaming is one of the most expensive digital services you can offer. So I did a bit of research and a few calculations....