• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      All of those things already exist. Typically it’s just a Plex server running on a cloud service.

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      Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites

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        The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.

        Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.

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          That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects

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        Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)