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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This. People do not realize what goes into running a media server. On the fly transcoding is so resource intense. Especially when you consider you could be doing it for many different streams at a time. Then you look at storage for it all and you need a massive amount of drives to store it all. Then there’s just the bandwidth necessary to run multiple stream constantly. The reason there aren’t any decent competitors to YouTube is almost entirely because of the resources needed.