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Anyone know how 'free' storage providers make any money? This is basically 10G + backup + geographical replication. IT costs (hard disks), electricity,cooling,

• mindotus 15y ago
  We are deployed on Amazon EC2 + S3 so the backup infrastructure cost is saved. In terms of profit, it definitely works out depending on how you go about doing it :) We will add options to earn more free storage soon, but I would love to see some stats behind other similar services if they are available!
  • danso 15y ago
    I swear I saw an interview with imgur's Alan Schaaf about how it made money, or broke even. So far I've only found this 10/2010 interview in which he only says "it's been really hard to make a profit" http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/02/10/alan-schaaf-interview-image-host-imgur-started/ http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/02/10/alan-schaaf-interview-im... In the 10/2010 interview, Schaff said imgur served 471 million images totalling about 65 terabytes. It had just started pro accounts at that point.
    • mindotus 15y ago
      Thanks for the link and yes imgur is definitely a great success story. I'm sure it is doing well these days :)