If you read the top comment of this thread, each of the top 20 digg users made ~10k a week or more for merely submitting to digg. Considering reddit has 7 time

If you read the top comment of this thread, each of the top 20 digg users made ~10k a week or more for merely submitting to digg. Considering reddit has 7 times the traffic of digg (On the day of the digg debacle) and no data centers itself, the server charges are reasonable. In the words of Raldi, "You can run it in 2 servers, we know; but we are just not that good enough"