With due respect, BS. Utter BS. plentyoffish.com has around 6m monthly and is run by a tiny team. (1 person for a long time afaik, maybe 2 now?) It's pie in t

With due respect, BS. Utter BS. plentyoffish.com has around 6m monthly and is run by a tiny team. (1 person for a long time afaik, maybe 2 now?) It's pie in the sky to think that you need to spend so much to run what is essentially, a very simple website. Wikipedia isn't some massively social website. Majority of people accessing it are READ_ONLY. It's not streaming video. The majority is static text. So it doesn't make sense to care how many people are on it... 10m users will not require twice the engineers or servers as 5m. Wikipedia: 70m users/month - hosting costs $6m or so? ($.086/user) Reddit: 10m users/month maybe? - hosting costs $33k or so? ($0.0033/user) [July] Mibbit: 1.5m users/month - hosting costs $500 or so ($0.0003/user) (numbers from quantcast, yes I know they're not exact but they're usually not orders of magnitude out). eg Wikipedia spends 250 times as much on hosting per user as I do. I'm not even saying I'm efficient with hosting costs. I'm sure I could host mibbit on $100/mo at a push. And I thought Reddits hosting costs were obscene. Do you really think that 8 cents per month, to host each User of a website is not ridiculously expensive?