I seem to remember lots of folks gave Wowza a thumbs up. And I'm assuming you should license the software and run your own server if you can get at least one customer to pay you for the service. But the cloud version seems like the way to start out, and my question is about Wowza Cloud for anybody using that for things like tower cams.
It looks like each camera would be $60/month, plus ingress and egress bandwidth. What is your typical cost per camera including bandwidth? I thought the transcoding option would be a must have to scale the resolution and bandwidth for different devices, but at $500/mo, that's too expensive. Does it work OK to just have one high resolution stream? Is that transcoding option per stream? What if you have more like 5 cameras you want to put on your website. That could be around $500/mo with the cloud service and including bandwidth. That seems way out of line unless it's generating ad revenue or something. I can't spend that much just because people would enjoy it.
