I imagine there are "enterprise contracts" for such things which don't reflect any pricing you can see publicly, but also.... they lose money.
YouTube lost SO MUCH MONEY early on, and this was a big part of needing to sell to a company capable of losing money for a while. And then they develop the in-house scale to figure it out.
Many companies operate at a loss in hopes of becoming a monopoly, then they start finding ways of extorting money out of people when there's no more competition.
On a more practical note, have you tried downsizing and re-encoding?
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I imagine there are "enterprise contracts" for such things which don't reflect any pricing you can see publicly, but also.... they lose money.
YouTube lost SO MUCH MONEY early on, and this was a big part of needing to sell to a company capable of losing money for a while. And then they develop the in-house scale to figure it out.
Right. Maybe the ‘economics of scale’ comes into play eventually.
That's not exactly what is going on there.
Many companies operate at a loss in hopes of becoming a monopoly, then they start finding ways of extorting money out of people when there's no more competition.
On a more practical note, have you tried downsizing and re-encoding?