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Originally Posted by Spudstr
1mil a month in bandwidth? given 10mbps thats what 100Gbps of commit rates. With that much throughput you're still lower than 10/mbps Maybe their entire hosting operation costs mil per month including space.. 15k sq feet in a dupont fabros datacenter would run you ~200k/month people and bandwidth.
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According to Forbes YouTube is estimated to stream about 40 million videos a day, which adds up to 200 TB each and every day. So let's run some numbers:
200TB a day is 8.33TB or something like 8500GB per hour.
142GB each minute, 2.37GB each second.
2.37 gigaBYTE/sec = 19 gigaBIT/sec
19 gbit/sec average over 24 hours. Don't forget that there's no way their load is evenly distributed over the whole day, so let's double that to support increased traffic during daytime and add another couple percent to catch sudden traffic spikes.
If the estimations are right, they probably need at least 30-40 Gbit of non-cheap-ass traffic. Can't compare that to offers some hosts may throw in every now and then either to attract new customers, by overbooking their lines.
And yeah, hardware costs are probably included in that 1M-a-month figure, but who cares? If rapidshare runs something like this, they have to pay for the hardware too.
I still have no clue how something like this can add up without some stupid VCs who want to burn money in another dotcom bubble.