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$400 million annually represents a monthly cost per user of $0.21 at 158 million daily active users. Which seems high at scale when looking at storage + bandwid
by brandon272 10y ago
$400 million annually represents a monthly cost per user of $0.21 at 158 million daily active users. Which seems high at scale when looking at storage + bandwidth alone, I would think, but I'm also not a big Snapchat user so I'm not sure what is going on in terms of long term storage of video on an account level.
- hrrsn 10y agoI would think their bandwidth costs are astronomical. Since 19/3/16 Snapchat has used 14.8GB of mobile data on my iPhone alone - not including WiFi.
- johansch 10y agoBandwidth is kinda cheap these days though, if you avoid GC and AWS. Anyone have recent numbers at this scale of commitment?
- sjg007 10y agoThey will get a bulk discount so it will be cheap probably close to zero.
- omarchowdhury 10y agoClose to zero but $400M in related expense.
- marcamillion 10y agoI literally lolled at this comment. I assume this is sarcasm...just want to verify :)
- jonknee 10y agoI would also assume they have factored in some growth over the next 5 years... If they don't have many multiples of 158M DAU by 2022 they are screwed regardless of their hosting bill.