It was believed that no one was doing the open source project to make money, as it would have been better than going to the Skybridge.
But even in the absence of such an idea, the maintenance of an open-source project would encounter some real problems, such as the cost of servers and CDNs. In the case of DPlayer, the bullet screen interface server costs more than 2,000 pieces per year, and the video CDN costs in the document cost more than 1,500 pieces per year, and these costs will only increase as users increase.
Even though sponsorship has been in the prominent position of README, it is not very promising, after all, that the DPlayer users are almost exclusively national, and it is difficult to meet a user who can describe his problems, and it turns out that, as I thought, the support received sporadically in the course of the year was just a glass of water. To be honest, it was not my pleasure to bear these costs on my own, together with the fact that most of the users were pirated and yellow stations, which once gave me the idea of a dump. #!
A lot of friends know the next thing, and the next thing they know, the DDPlayer has been sponsored [also by the cloud] (https://www.upyun.com/) and the second by the President (https://pear.hk/) has sponsored all the CDN costs of the DDPlayer, while the Pear Computation provides a significant amount of money per month.
In general, if a group or enterprise uses open-source projects in commercial products, there is a direct commercial benefit to sponsoring open-source projects: the framework on which the product is based can be kept healthy and actively maintained. The difference is that the cloud is not used by the DPlayer, and there will be no direct business return in the short term. It may be more a hobby, and I am particularly moved by the generous sponsorship of the cloud as a business company that does not want to be rewarded.
Of course, this article is not about calling for sponsorship or going to the sky bridge, and the fact that the two companies are now sponsored with enough manpower to spend on a day-to-day basis, in addition to sponsorship, to contribute the code, to add a well-articulated bug or opinion, to encourage, or simply to use my open-source project, makes me happy, and these are the driving forces that allow me to continue to spend my time as an open source.
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[Presentation] (https://pear.hk/) is a fog calculator that focuses on providing IaaS architecture, PaaS platform and SaaS software services to users. Pear Fog is not only a resource pool that crosses a network centre to the edge, but also a new P2P system. In which Fog CDN is helping video producers to reduce content distribution costs and improve quality in a transparent and Web-friendly manner.
[Applied clouds] (https://www.upyun.com/) is a well-known national business cloud service provider dedicated to providing one-stop online business acceleration services to clients, such as client storage, HTTPS/SSL certificates, multimedia processing (WebP self-adaptation, H.265 self-adaptation, etc.), video recognition, text recognition, short video SDK, live SSDK, Lenmack SDK, etc. It also has six data processing centres, over 300 national CDN nodes, 15 overseas CDN nodes, 5,000 servers, 5TB bandwidth, and requests for more than 100 billion times a day. 。