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by dbbk 3183 days ago
I disagree. As has been mentioned, a common use case of Patreon is providing exclusive, private videos to patrons. Hosting it themselves of course allows access of the video to be aligned with payment.

It probably also wouldn't be that expensive. Their videos would mostly be behind paywalls. It's not like YouTube or Reddit Videos where they could get a million views overnight. So the delivery cost would be naturally constrained.

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Right, but why wouldn't they just use Cloudflare or some other CDN partner?
I am talking about them 'hosting it themselves' via the use of CloudFlare.