How do web hosts make money?

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How do companies like megaupload, rapidshare etc operate? They are hosting probably 1000s of petabytes of illegal content. Is this content actually in a huge rooms somewhere filled with hard drives or is it somehow 'virtual'
If it is not in a room then how is data actually stored, if not on something?

Surely the cost of storing all the data outweighs the cost of membership, especially as there will be poeple who upload many GBs per day
 
You see, what they do is, il use a popular term, hack into your computer, and store a part of the encrypted file on there, then when someome requests it, it gets uplaoded from your machine. But heres the key, they get millions of machines world wide to store the data, some mirrow it, some store others, it is a perfect solution!*


*Absolute rubbish
 
Most people won't use up to the limits, many people pay for premium just to download.
It's just a big old datacentre, they get millions of subscriptions, and then advertising.
 
rapid share turn over a scary amount of money for subscriptions - they use this plus the advertising to pay for their datacentre and still maintain a very very healthy profit margin (which hopefully a decent chunk of is going to their defense fund ;) )
 
PESolution said:
obv the subscription incomes + advertising incomes outweigh the costs of such servers and bandwidth. I dont understand the thread?
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Yes, but if you read my thread i was asking how enough money is made to store all the stuff. If people constantly upload hundreds of GB then wont their drives become maxed out?

Is the data even stored physically?
 
Guest2 said:
Yes, but if you read my thread i was asking how enough money is made to store all the stuff. If people constantly upload hundreds of GB then wont their drives become maxed out?

Is the data even stored physically?
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Rapidshare are ahead of the curve and use quantam cabbage storage.
 
It costs a lot to run yes, but considering you can sometimes host up to 100 sites from one server and charge £50 a year or for business lines, upto £50 a week, then it all works out often nicely in the web hosts favour.
 
Everytime you upload a file, it gets sent to one the servers based on which has the least data.

RapidShare and alike isn't just your average hosting company. We're talking tens of thousands of servers, each with TB's of HDD space.

HDD space isn't the money killer, it's bandwidth. But bandwidth is ridiculously cheap in main-land Europe especially in Germany (afaik RapidShare operates from here?), Netherlands, etc.
 
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Guest2 said:
s or is it somehow 'virtual'
If it is not in a room then how is data actually stored, if not on something?
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It could not be virtual could it, data has to be stored somewhere. That is what hard drives are for. I'm sure RS has many server filled rooms across the globe.
 
How do they know which bits are missing lol

Scales of economy is how they profit. all the dot coms that went bust lacked the customers in sufficient numbers to skim off their costs plus extra
 
5.4 petabytes isn't that much when you look at the grand scheme of things..

5400x 1Tb (of course they'll have redundancy too)



how on earth do you not store data 'physically'? keep it in a wireless limbo ?! :p
 
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