In the wake of Twitch’s seemingly unattainable Partner Plus program, jaded streamers are claiming they’ll move to the streaming rival Kick.

In the wake of Twitch’s seemingly unattainable Partner Plus program, jaded streamers are claiming they’ll move to the streaming rival Kick.

  • okawari@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I checked out how much it would cost to for example make live streaming platform using AWS on the backend. This is an example they give on their cost/pricing page:

    Approximately 10,000 viewers for a one-hour live event using a high definition (HD)-1080p encoding profile is approximately $12.50 for live encoding and packaging + $1531.49 for 18,017GB distribution = $1,543.99 for the one-hour event.

    AWS is known to be VERY expensive, you can probably save quite a bit with a smaller setup, but I don’t think a longer 5+ hour stream would be cheap if done outside of these platforms.

    I’dd love to hear if anyone has any real life experience with hosting large live streams like this on the cheap.

    • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      you’re right and that’s prolly the biggest limiting factor. I’d love to see like streaming co-ops where an organization maintains the infrastructure using OwnCast or something and individuals can join to use the server. The org would be more accountable to its members due to its smaller size and streamers would have more control over their channel and content.