• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It is expensive, but it’s hard to quantify that expense for a cloud provider like Google. They’re liable to use their market prices for cloud services to justify the “cost” when they want to make it look more expensive than it is. They’re already building a cdn for all their other services as well, so YouTube’s cost is baked into that.

    Reddit, by comparison actually pays for cloud hosting for all it’s video services and so pays out the ass.