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Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell
There are so many false and inaccurate assumptions in this thread on every level from so many different people.
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brad, this is a great thread, you should explain that out and keep it going
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Originally Posted by Sin_Vraal
You know, I said the same thing to one of my friends. MANY times actually (downtime isn't a rare thing there), and you know what he said?
"Even if I'm down I still save more money hosting there than I do with you, paying your higher rate"
I didn't really have much to say after that.  |
its an interesting point that prices like $4 meg allowed business models (and experimentation/exploration of others) for the first time that made less money per bw used, like cogent allowed the mass proliferation of free hosted galleries.
You can try things without having a large exposure of hosting costs, and as these are sites that make money, but its not critical that they are up 100% of the time
So from another point, as the value of content goes down and cost to transmit that content go down, this ultimately gets more alternatives to consumers that are buying your clients content.
Ultimately, the tube sites showed up because of low bw cost