Thank you for your insights and support!

The budget requested for servers isn't as high as it may seem, considering we plan to deploy ingest nodes in multiple regions to ensure a smooth streaming experience for users worldwide. As for storing videos, we've never had an issue because our videos expire after a set period unless the user pays for premium, which more than covers the cost of hosting and delivering the videos.

Additionally, because we'll be integrating Twitch channels, videos from these channels are all hosted by Twitch and won't cost us anything. We're simply embedding replays from these channels into our front end.

I also want to clarify that we're not in debt with Amazon anymore. That situation was resolved months after it severely impacted our AWS account.

I've funded and ran VIMM myself for six years, so I'm well aware of the costs involved and how to optimize them to keep expenses low while still offering the features that streamers want, like low latency streams and replays. We've learned a lot from our past experiences and are confident in our ability to manage these costs effectively.

Best of luck with HiveStreams.Live! It's great to see more platforms supporting the streaming community.

See you in the streams!