How do web hosts make money?

[Guest2]

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

 

[Guest2]

obv the subscription incomes + advertising incomes outweigh the costs of such servers and bandwidth. I dont understand the thread?

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]

The data in ethernet cables isnt stored is it? It must be just in 'limbo' Get 500 billion miles of ethernet cable, start downloading something and the data will be in limbo

I just thought i couldnt possibly be stored on hard drives as it would cost way too much, what with people uploading 10gb a day. A 1TB drive would soon disappear if you have a few people doing this

 

[Guest2]

When was dvdbunny banned? Late April?

arnt you the little detective!


genuinely, i have no idea who dvdbunny is