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		staunch on Aug 2, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scale Your Website Like YouTube - A Look at YouTub... On a per-user basis it certainly could be. I don't think we have numbers on average stream duration for Justin or the number of videos the average YouTuber watches though. Most of the YC companies don't do anything bandwidth-intensive so it's a pretty meaningless thing to compare.

ivankirigin on Aug 2, 2007 [–]

"Most of the YC companies don't do anything bandwidth-intensive so it's a pretty meaningless thing to compare."

That was my initial point. You don't really need to worry about scaling like YouTube. Scaling like Flickr and Facebook makes a bit more sense.

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