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shawabawa3 · 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.

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.

paxys | karma 66162 | avg karma 7.18 · | 2019-09-16 19:26:31

That's about $4000/month in bandwidth costs, assuming retail pricing.

FYI he is bragging, not complaining. There are a dozen ways to reduce or eliminate this problem.

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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.

omellet | karma 325 | avg karma 2.98 · | 2010-08-02 08:38:40

You're possibly double counting the bandwidth costs if he's also using the connection for his workstations.

amazon_not | karma 422 | avg karma 1.11 · | 2015-11-02 07:35:29+00:00

> Sure, bandwidth is cheap

Indeed it is, especially when you consider their fees and costs. Based on the information in the article their monthly free cash flow is $2150, so they certainly can afford their current bandwidth usage be it at $9 or $30 per Mbps without playing silly games and spying on their users.

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

What about bandwidth costs?

AndrewWarner | karma 8125 | avg karma 8.19 · | 2010-02-21 12:54:15

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

duncans | karma 519 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2013-02-04 13:42:42+00:00

the cost of the bandwidth

da_chicken | karma 4443 | avg karma 4.61 · | 2018-07-20 14:30:14+00:00

I'm not concerned about bandwidth costs. I'm concerned about support costs. People who use an API have an annoying habit of calling and submitting support tickets for that API.

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

Bandwidth is cheap.

edflsafoiewq | karma 4147 | avg karma 2.8 · | 2023-05-08 14:39:43

Bandwidth is not cheap for many of us.

mos1b | karma 8 | avg karma 0.62 · | 2010-06-03 22:34:27

He used hundreds of hours of his time. What makes you think he would've refrained from paying a few extra dollars for the bandwidth?

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2018-05-12 17:28:47+00:00

Bandwidth is only expensive when you're a small consumer, or when you buy at places like AWS.

goldenkey | karma 2244 | avg karma 0.68 · | 2020-03-23 07:22:09+00:00

It's really the bandwidth that'll cost you :-)

maxaf | karma 2189 | avg karma 4.55 · | 2019-08-14 13:31:48

I’m not denying that using a lot of bandwidth is a valid thing to do. My point is that heavy users must pay more than casual users.

cwyers | karma 12109 | avg karma 4.27 · | 2015-02-17 22:15:15

Even if it is, bandwidth isn't particularly cheap.

accountface | karma 332 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2017-03-31 14:10:54+00:00

Bandwidth has a physical cost

sghehedh | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2009-08-05 14:36:12+00:00

Without reading the article, which is probably addressing a much more sensible point than the title would have us believe: Coz bandwidth costs money?

rydre | karma 746 | avg karma 4.63 · | 2020-06-13 08:59:54+00:00

Yeah but my application is consumer focused and bandwidth is a real cost.