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      <title>How big should your storage server be? Sizing for catch-up, VOD, tube and file hosting</title>
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      <description>Operators obsess over bandwidth and CPU, then casually order &quot;64 TB, that'll be plenty&quot; — and six months later they're migrating catch-up off a saturated RAID-6 at 03:00. Same napkin-math approach as our IPTV-bandwidth and GPU-sizing posts: four numbers decide whether one 120 TB box is plenty or you're already cooked.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Most teams pick a GPU on a Discord recommendation, not on data. Here is the math: VRAM sizing per model, memory-bandwidth vs compute bottlenecks, and when dedicated rental beats cloud per-hour.</description>
      <author>Hostfory NOC</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How much bandwidth does a 50K-line IPTV head-end actually need?</title>
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      <description>Most IPTV operators undersize their pipe by 2-3x. The four-number formula every panel operator should know — and a worked example for a 50K-subscriber mixed EU panel.</description>
      <author>Hostfory NOC</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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