{
  "id": 13231350,
  "title": "Curious about how free anime/movie streaming sites handle storage and bandwidth under the hood",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/curious-about-how-free-anime-movie-streaming-sites-handle-storage-and",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-09T22:07:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/prasantaray/curious-about-how-free-animemovie-streaming-sites-handle-storage-and-bandwidth-under-the-hood-2pl6"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Been going down a rabbit hole trying to understand how free streaming sites actually operate without instantly going broke or getting nuked by hosting providers. From a system design perspective, I can't wrap my head around a few things: Storage/Bandwidth: If they're serving thousands of full movies/shows, storing that on something like S3 would rack up insane egress bills in a day. Where are…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}