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Originally Posted by EdgeXXX
Maybe I'm tired and still trying to wake up or something, but that article makes absolutely zero sense. First it says " Meanwhile (YouTube's) bandwidth costs, which increase every time a visitor clicks on a video, may be approaching $1 million a month--much of which goes to provider Limelight Networks., then a little later in the article they say "Industry observers estimate that YouTube, which is streaming 40 million videos and 200 terabytes of data per day, may be paying between a tenth of a cent and half a cent per minute" (which comes out to around $2,628/yr).  WTF? Could those 2 figures be any further apart? |
There are roughly 525,949 minutes in a year, so at a half cent a minute their bandwidth costs
for the video streaming would run $262,974.50, or about $21,914.15 per month. At a tenth of a cent, it's $52,594.90 per year or $4,382.90 per month.
But is that a per-minute total, or a per-minute-per-terabyte? (I know, it seems an odd measure, but when $$$ is at stake people come up with odd ways of metering charges) Figuring it at per terabyte and it jumps to $1,753,163.33 per month. Allowing for off-peak times decreasing the total bill, say by a little under half, and you come back down to the industry observers guess of a cool million bucks a month.