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imminent wrote

For most sites, increasing hosting costs by actually using it is good for them

Yes, but for Hooktube in particular since (please understand the following point as it's very crucial) Youtube has rate limiting, that means the number of requests that Hooktube can make is limited, and if there are too much requests to hooktube's API then Youtube may block its server or rate limiting thereby altering performance for everyone, in which case its main sysadmin will have to setup not only one backend but more this time raising his costs.

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imminent wrote

You do realize that his service doesn't scale well? (Which is another crucial point) At one point 1000 requests/s, or heck just 100 searches/s, it will require dozens of instances to run. And I'm sure when it explodes we won't be seeing him anytime soon.

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