How should churches think about monthly cost?
Start with one SRT contribution path, weekly live hours, two or three restream destinations, and whether replay archive matters. For most churches, delivery and archive matter more than huge infrastructure.
How should virtual events estimate CDN cost?
Use peak concurrent viewers and total viewer-hours first. Virtual events usually become CDN-led faster than they become infrastructure-led, especially when playback is public and replay is kept.
How should sports streaming estimate cost?
Start with live hours, audience spikes, average watch time, replay retention, and how many public destinations need the same game feed. Sports costs tend to move first in delivery and archive, not only runtime.
When does self-hosted make more sense than cloud?
Choose self-hosted when deployment control, networking policy, internal integrations, or data location matter enough that your team wants its own infrastructure economics and operational model.
Does restreaming change pricing materially?
Yes. One input becoming many outputs changes transport, runtime, and sometimes archive assumptions. Churches and event teams feel this quickly when they add YouTube, Facebook, internal monitoring, and backup outputs together.
Why show viewer-hours and not only GB?
Because buyer teams understand people and time faster than they understand transfer math. We still translate the workload into GB behind the estimate, but viewer-hours is the better planning language.
Can we start in cloud and move to self-hosted later?
Yes. That is one of the cleanest stories Callaba can tell. Start in cloud to prove the workflow, then move to self-hosted if control, economics, or policy begin to matter more than launch speed.