I don't understand how adding WebRTC/Whip enables the bullet points you listed. Is the idea that we'll transcode locally and because of that, we can set up a cheap host? How does this impact the level of hardware we'll need locally?

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Pretty much! You are doing multiple encodes lately.

Yes you will use more bandwidth/compute locally. In the future I hope to support SVC so you have zero bandwidth overage.