cost of using BigBlueButton

[shay]

Hi, i would like to know what are the costs for implementing BigBlueButton.

also what kind of costs does it usually take to download a video (per minuet and hour). 

also usuall cost of storage of a video.

in general all kind of costs that can be when using BigBlueButton.

[Pastor James Wilcox]

Hi Shay:

BBB itself is open source, so you're free to download it, install it and use it. The costs associated with BBB are: server, bandwidth and storage.

So much of this depends on how you go about implementing it. 

I would begin by asking myself:
how many simultaneous users do I expect?

How many rooms will I have running at peak time?

What's my cost, per terabyte, for storage?

Are you building a server on site OR are you using something like Amazon AWS?

If building a server yourself, you need to figure out what kind of a server you need to build to support the number of users, then calculate how much bandwidth you need, plus costs associated with running a web server.

If Amazon, you can price out their various server packages.

To give you a little kind of an idea of what my costs were. It cost me about $200/month just to have the server running and available on AWS. That $200 bought me an IP address with Amazon, a server and storage. Also, that was with very limited bandwidth usage as no one ran any BBB sessions for that month. Your prices will vary.

I also know there are BBB providers out there, but don't know their costs off the top of my head.

There was a document I recall that gave some estimates on per user bandwidth needs, but I can't remember. Was it 1 mb/minute per session? 

James

[Pastor James Wilcox]

I've not used this outfit before, but it's maybe an easier solution if you're just staring up. I think if I were to implement BBB again, I'd do it through a hosting provider like this.

https://www.bigbluemeeting.com/#pricing