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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish113•5 months agoI mean, distributing it isn’t a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc. That’s no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish33•5 months agoAll of those things already exist. Typically it’s just a Plex server running on a cloud service.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•5 months agoYeah like… Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but… It’s not 2005.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•5 months agoDepends how many users. But yeah a lot.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoBoth Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•5 months agoThe entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive. Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•5 months agoThat is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•5 months agoI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoNot only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)
I mean, distributing it isn’t a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc.
That’s no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.
All of those things already exist. Typically it’s just a Plex server running on a cloud service.
Yeah like… Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but… It’s not 2005.
5 people could do it though.
Depends how many users.
But yeah a lot.
Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.
Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)