depends on whether ur videos are 5-10 mins or really long ones like 30mins, smaller file sizes u can serve more people same time, bigger size then less people server can handle, also the port is important its easy to over 1gbps and pull the whole server down. thats why people suggest spread them with several smaller servers and use cdn for the contents. its expensive though. but u can't calculate or predict how much ur bandwidth unless u try it. Before thinking about bandwidth, i would first learn how to convert those tube traffic first with smaller project. like setting up a smaller niche tube. I assume u will be using plug in ads like exoclicks and others like the rest of the tube webmasters, and maybe put the sponsor link below ur movie to grab some pps revshare attention, however u should be cautious where the traffic coming from I assume u rely solely on google and other search engine, usually the first few months when ur site is setup, google tends to flood it with poor countries such as indian,indonesian,turkey,russian,thailand etc, depends on how u choose ur keywords and u gotta prepare to convert them, prepare they are bandwith suckers they tend to stay really long time on a site and keep surfing, they are also the group which geo pay is the minimum, very hard to make money off them both ppc or pps or revshare. When u survive the first wave, maybe 6 months after or 1 year, u start seeing really good traffic from better countries thats where u make money. still the payout is good but in order to make real money u need massive traffic. I give u an idea of how much a tube of mine made last month. Uniques u have (assume 50% good countries 50% bad) x 30 days of a month Dived by 1000 then times it by 1.3. so let say u have 50,000 a day,u should be making somewhere $2000. Then u deduct bandwith. Assuming u also use every inch of ur site to put ads and popup and roll up ads to archive a better ctr.
is it easy? i say its easy to grow to few thousansd 50,000 is quite easy but to grow form there to around 400,000 its difficult u need lots of contents, and really good at keyword research and hours of operation to archive, but is possible. like anything in this society, only top 1-5% of people make 6 figures a year, same to adult industry.
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