yeah, for instance a back up server of mutliple TB's requires a fee when downloading it

bandwidth is cheap on residential contracts

not for servers

do tell

heh

make a simulation on it

go to amazon

and put 1 petabyte

don't pay retail at that rate

then add the costs for Cloudflare (which you will need)

negotiate a contract

1 peta is maybe a bit much

no?

4chan has more bandwidth usage per month than that

and they don't do video

will be under 2c / Gb
even if you are an incompetent negotiator

1 peta is nothing

that's 20000$ for 1 peta, per month alone

sure

and that is cheap

because of those prices I have decided to simply store everything myself, using a NAS and a backup located somewhere else

without costs for the servers, storage or loadbalancing

if you can't make 100k a month at that scale
then your business model is broken

out of what? ads?

that's up to you - this is your idea

I was the one that first stated that it was unprofitable

if you want to argue that it is

than say why/how

no free consulting

than why even start the discussion?

but if you don't have a model in the black at that scale,
then you don't have a good idea

??? Buddy you both agree

also
you should be able to figure out how to seed

it's not that hard

Facebook didn't make money for years, and I wouldn't consider it a bad idea 😏

facebook lost what.... 600 million
before turning a profit

yup

facebook was an investment in identity

but look at what facebook has become and the impact it currently has on society

facebook was strategic infrastructure

there is no investment to be made into a streaming site to compete with google