Hivelocity Targets Streaming Costs with New Infrastructure Bundle

The Tampa-based infrastructure provider is shifting away from traditional per-gigabyte billing, which often punishes platforms for growth. By offering single-tenant, bare metal servers with built-in DDoS protection, the company intends to shield streaming services from both volatile expenses and malicious traffic spikes during high-demand live events.

"Cloud egress pricing taxes streaming platforms for succeeding," said Ned Pope, Chief Product Officer at Hivelocity. The new offering segments infrastructure into three distinct tiers: Engineering Compute for development and testing, Production Compute for subscriber management and DRM, and Delivery Compute for high-bandwidth content distribution. This tiered approach allows media companies to offload GPU-heavy tasks to the cloud while keeping core origin services and packaging on Hivelocity’s dedicated hardware.