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For reference last month our website that also hosts the fast downloads for the servers maps transferred: 307GB. We transfer an average of 1mb/s every month.
I should also note that web hosts often sell 100,000gb of transfer for like $15 a month there speeds are like 10mb up. Now how can a much much bigger group of people all pay $30-$50 a month and only get 250gb at much less speed, sounds like some monopolization to me...
Lets think, when you order a web server you are paying for: the server, the power to run it, the lines to the centers main output, a fraction of the total cost of the centers internet, the power to run all the switches in the center and others hosted by the company, the power to cool all of this, the money for staff to man all of this, the rent for the space, the guards to secure everything, the money to upgrade the computers and all of the network stuff.
Now when your the one doing the hosting and all your getting is the connection that makes there cost a lot lot less, although you can say that it is more money to run the crap to your house. But there are a lot more people paying for that cable to your neighborhood and not just for internet. The current rate they are doing is $99 for phone and internet and cable. You could say there are as many people in a large neighborhood as servers in a data center. Now these people are paying about 2-4 times as much money at minimum. But they personally cover the cost for the network on their end and the power and the upgrades and the security and the land. In addition they also get less speed and in addition to that they now can only transfer 1/400 as much data. So they pay a minimum of twice as much for about 1/400 the service. Logically I am being general but if you went in depth the numbers would only get worse...
Last edited by ZERO; 08-29-2008 at 02:34 PM.
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