The combination of the iOS and tvOS App Store releases the Android and Android TV public betas has resulted in a large increase in our user base. After the summer lull, the return of football means a lot more people are watching live TV on the broadcast networks. It is time for a usage breakdown:
Total users: 7496
Devices:
- iOS: 7521
- AppleTV: 2089
- Android: 307
- Android Tv: 103
Usage:
We see the most viewers during football. This is our concurrent viewer count for Sunday Sept 7th which was main NFL opening day. These are all time high concurrent user numbers for us. Overall the platform scaled up without any issues.
So how much data did we use? At the time where we had 800 viewers, the green line, which is a proxy for the load on our servers is flat and the blue line is the CDN absorbing the spike properly and sending out an additional 5.18TB of data.
Monthly Costs
Our hosting and energy costs are largely fixed at $70. The primary variable cost is the CDN aka blue line in the chart above.
Previous months:
May: $92
June: $88
July : $41 (we were down repeatedly)
August: $77
15 days in Sept: $125
At the moment, Sept averages to $8 /day.
Currently, I estimate the monthly operating costs to be $250 + $70 = $320. This translates to $10/day or $0.00125 per user per day.