So why spend all that CapEx money on a hardware vMix server? You could have done it cheaper in the cloud and spend the CapEx difference on hardware purchasing.
ASKED BY · Jef Kethley · TEXAS OF COURSE · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:54:34
Cloud solutions are not actually cheaper for his use case; he would still need hardware encoders or another computer to capture feeds, plus bandwidth considerations make on-premise more practical. Additionally, universities prefer large one-time expenditures over recurring annual costs.
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54:22the we have a bowl in and it's it's really nice it's really expensive it's the most expensive camera we have, but it's really nice. There you go. Next question. Next up is Jeff Keithley in Texas, of course. So why spend all that CapEx money on a hardware vMix server? You could have done it cheaper in the cloud and spend the CapEx difference on hardware
54:48purchasing. Explain your entire cash flow and the responsibility of the university to do it this way. Jeff's always pushing me to go to the cloud. And here's the thing, right? For me, it's not actually cheaper, right? You can say, oh, well, I spent 10 grand on a vMix computer. I could spend way less and just have it on a server in the cloud. And we're in Oregon, so the
55:21the AWS server, they're real close, right? You've got data centers there. They're big data centers. Well, and it's fun. It's interesting. We have, with Flow, for every broadcast, we have to do a speed test between our on-prem and their servers, and they use the AWS servers. And I've got almost a gig of bandwidth to get to this. So I have plenty of bandwidth.
55:44I could actually do this, right? We have the bandwidth. You've got a big pipe. But here's the thing, right? Right. Like. I still would need to get that feed to the server. Right. So I would need to capture it somehow. I would need other device. I would either need hardware encoders for each camera. I would need another computer with like it for me.
56:02It as much as I wish it did make sense. It just doesn't. and in where we're in our particular I don't know they would rather spend once and then figure it out in five six years as opposed to setting aside a set amount of money like I think a lot of ways that's higher education works that way sometimes it's like yes we can spend
56:29institutions everywhere we can spend ten grand now but we can't spend two grand every every year for five years, that kind of stuff. Right. No, I've been around that a good little bit. Next question. This is another one from Paul Valhos in Austin, Texas. The Esports World Cup in Paris ran seven weeks, eight stages, and 35 languages on Readle. Is Esports the toughest live job with a link?
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