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how much does it cost digg in bandwith dollar?
by hs 18y ago
how much does it cost digg in bandwith dollar?
- alex_c 18y agoOK, I'll bite. The message itself is 106 bytes. Digg gets ~70 million US visits per month (Compete), with 50% traffic from the US (Alexa), and average ~5 page views per user (Compete & Alexa). So let's say 700 million page views a month. 700,000,000 * 106 = 74,200,000,000 bytes/month ~= 70 gigabytes/month. Slicehost charges $20 for 100 gigabytes/month. I'm assuming Digg pays for unmetered bandwidth, which should come out to a lot less. So, I guess the answer is - not much.
- ojbyrne 18y agoYou left out the fact that use gzip to compress their pages. So the real answer is - even less.
- alex_c 18y agoYep, I remembered about compression after I posted. So did you have anything to do with this hidden message? :p
- ojbyrne 18y agoI knew about it, not much more than that. Timeless, our dba, put it in (digg user philovivero).
- maximilian 18y agoHow does that work? Is the page sent gzipped and my computer un-gzips it? (and what specifically does that..do browsers do that?)
- ojbyrne 18y agoYep. The browser sends an "Accept-Encoding" header as part of its request (with a list of what it supports). And the server can respond back with one of the encodings listed. Most modern browser support compression I believe.
- maximilian 18y agoThats pretty kickin. If I made websites for a living I would look into that further.
- bkbleikamp 18y agoMost people who work on large scale websites know about it :)
- kirubakaran 18y agogzipping saves bandwidth at the cost of cpu cycles. So it may or may not be a good idea, depending on what you are trying to save.
- mseebach 18y ago58667 digg-orig.html 14585 digg-orig.html.gz 58560 digg-noegg.html 14524 digg-noegg.html.gz 61 bytes.
- mattmaroon 18y agoObviously Digg didn't read the Sequoia presentation. Cutting that out would extend their runway by at least 2 seconds.