How do web hosts make money?
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erm i did read your thread and my response still applies... the income obv still outweights the cost, or the company wouldnt exist..
And is it stored physically? jesus h christ this thread is epic fail. No its stored in the virtual world alongside the bank where all the world of warcraft gold is horded
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how on earth do you not store data 'physically'? keep it in a wireless limbo ?!
You could store a good few hundred KBs in a token ring network loop
how on earth do you not store data 'physically'? keep it in a wireless limbo ?!
Yeah they transmit the data wirelessly through a blast freezer and then thaw it as they need it.
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how on earth do you not store data 'physically'? keep it in a wireless limbo ?!
Hahaha! brilliant
Yeah just keep beaming it around.how on earth do you not store data 'physically'? keep it in a wireless limbo ?!
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Burnsy, what are you doing? You're not old enough to know about Token Ring.
Hehe, what can I say, I dabble in all sorts of antiques
Are Rapidshare.com and .de actually the same company? They do the same thing, but the sites have an obviously different look to them, and my premium .com account doesn't transfer to the german based one, so I've always been curious as to the relation.
Economies of scale is the big one.
240gbit/s between say 4000 servers isn't a big problem. Routing and switching gear will be incredibly expensive, but you can use pretty low end servers as they're only serving static content.
4000 servers will go in a datacenter of ~8000sq ft or 100 racks without too much trouble. Even at a very cheap 1 euro per mbit 95th, their costs are probably millions per month.
If you remember back to before Youtube was purchased by Google, Youtube was burning through cash ridiculously quickly (funded by venture capital).
240gbit/s between say 4000 servers isn't a big problem. Routing and switching gear will be incredibly expensive, but you can use pretty low end servers as they're only serving static content.
4000 servers will go in a datacenter of ~8000sq ft or 100 racks without too much trouble. Even at a very cheap 1 euro per mbit 95th, their costs are probably millions per month.
If you remember back to before Youtube was purchased by Google, Youtube was burning through cash ridiculously quickly (funded by venture capital).
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Im fairly sure by 'physically' he meant is it all stored together in one data centre, rather than some sort of cloud operation.
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
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
Stop embarrassing yourself tbh.
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Actually, they have no redundancy whatsoever for the "free upload" storage banks. If a disk goes, it goes. That account loses it's data but meh, it's a free account.
That's going to be my sig!
There is no data on those cables - it's just electrical pulses or pulses of light. The routers/switches/computers at either end of these cables convert those pulses back into data - so, in summary, the data is stored in volatile memory, on hard disks or on flash based medium, not on/in electrical or fiber optic cabling.
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