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Maybe I'm missing something, but how the hell are these guys making money? Aren't they responsible for hosting liekly pentabytes of data for just a few bucks per month per user?
 
Hard drives are pretty cheap

I don't know if they're using cheap IDE drives, but apparantly they are making money...
 
Originally posted by: FleshLight
$.50 per a gb ftw.
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Even so, these guys must be responsible for hundreds of thousands of gigabytes. If you think about it, it's a lot more then you'd assume at first. Just one movie in a.b.hdtv (ROTK) is 24GB. Not that I'd download it, thats illegal 🙂.
 
Really doubt most host the stuff themselves, they probably pay for some ridiculous hosting plan that's close to an unlimited deal.
 
Originally posted by: SLCentral
Maybe I'm missing something, but how the hell are these guys making money? Aren't they responsible for hosting liekly pentabytes of data for just a few bucks per month per user?
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You should see how much data Giganews keeps.

Its not a easy business.
 
They probably do it by taking more money in than they spend.

Go figure.

1 million customers * 5 bucks a month = 60 million revenue.

I could easily host news for that. All it takes is a big pipe (15K a month), a few big servers (100K each) and disk unit (1,500K), software (300K)

all set. it would practically run itself and would only need a staff of a few people to cover accounting/billing/day to day operations.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
They probably do it by taking more money in than they spend.

Go figure.

1 million customers * 5 bucks a month = 60 million revenue.

I could easily host news for that. All it takes is a big pipe (15K a month), a few big servers (100K each) and disk unit (1,500K), software (300K)

all set. it would practically run itself and would only need a staff of a few people to cover accounting/billing/day to day operations.
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True but you need a lot of startup money.
 
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