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AndrewWarner · 2010-02-21 12:54:15

Bandwidth costs do exceed $100, but that's not a factor.

victorbjorklund | karma 896 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2023-04-27 12:51:16

Bandwidth is unlimited. You can have 100 tb in traffic and it will cost zero.

acchow | karma 7694 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2017-06-01 21:31:09+00:00

Bandwidth costs are not really the major cost of providing content.

enjo | karma 6426 | avg karma 4.45 · | 2010-11-20 09:06:33+00:00

That's a really small cost, however. Bandwidth is stupid cheap.

trevyn | karma 3856 | avg karma 2.34 · | 2019-12-16 02:09:23

Actual cost of bandwidth is approaching zero, fwiw.

overcast | karma 8759 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2020-10-22 03:03:14+00:00

The bandwidth and infrastructure is not where the costs are.

huac | karma 3886 | avg karma 3.22 · | 2017-07-14 18:45:25

No charge for bandwidth?

pnutjam | karma 1759 | avg karma 1.07 · | 2019-10-23 02:46:39+00:00

Bandwidth is cheap.

shawabawa3 | karma 5773 | avg karma 4.04 · | 2015-07-30 16:02:05+00:00

He's not concerned about his bandwidth costs, but about the bandwidth costs (in both money and time) to the users.

commandlinefan | karma 18097 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2020-11-03 11:58:30

And for the most part, it doesn't matter how much money you have to spend on it. If I were inclined to offer twice as much for double the bandwidth, that's just not an option. (Not that I feel like I'm getting the bandwidth I pay for in the first place...)

ddorian43 | karma 2409 | avg karma 1.09 · | 2015-09-22 18:24:38

And the bandwidth is $.01/GB and you don't pay for transactions.

ddorian43 | karma 2409 | avg karma 1.09 · | 2015-09-22 18:18:39+00:00

And the bandwidth is $.01/GB and you don't pay for transactions.

panarky | karma 29034 | avg karma 8.55 · | 2022-05-28 01:16:41

Zero bandwidth cost within the same zone.

killingtime74 | karma 1724 | avg karma 1.7 · | 2024-02-18 02:05:37

It's not incompetent or even more expensive if you assume network bandwidth is a fixed cost.

nulltype | karma 728 | avg karma 1.68 · | 2015-07-24 07:35:44+00:00

What about bandwidth costs?

vvpan | karma 1695 | avg karma 3.59 · | 2015-11-02 14:22:15

But why does it matter? Bandwidth is super-cheap.

jedberg | karma 72921 | avg karma 5.98 · | 2010-07-27 08:16:22+00:00

The bandwidth is less than 5% of the total cost. It's about $2500 a month.

wrycoder | karma 5940 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2019-06-07 17:50:53

Well, 100x the bandwidth for 10x the price.

bcrl | karma 1516 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2023-01-16 19:05:12

Bandwidth costs way less than $0.003/GB. Even cheaper for Netflix because ISPs are willing to host cache servers for free.

WillPostForFood | karma 8904 | avg karma 3.23 · | 2015-09-09 07:14:11+00:00

FWIW, $100/mo is for small businesses, so presumably many users sharing the bandwidth. It is $70/mo for residential.