Are my numbers wrong or shouldn't $200 million / year revenue support them and even turn a profit: Generous estimate: 100 billion pageviews a month @ ~400kb =

Are my numbers wrong or shouldn't $200 million / year revenue support them and even turn a profit: Generous estimate: 100 billion pageviews a month @ ~400kb = ~40,000 terrabytes of data or just under ~150Gbps of bandwidth. What does a Gbps cost? $10,000 a month? Probably less considering their scale, but let's say it costs that much. So for bandwidth: $20 million a year. How many servers? I recall a presentation saying they used 800 or so servers, but to be sure say it's become 5,000 and say servers cost $4000 and must be replaced each year: So for servers: $20 million a year. As for storage, 10 billion photos @ 400kb (way too generous here) = 4000 terrabytes a month - What's a 1TB hard disk cost, $200? Triple redundancy just in case: So for storage: $30 million a year How many people does it employ? 1000? So for people: $100 million a year. people: $100 mil storage: $30 mil servers: $20 mil bandwidth: $20 mil ------------------ total: $170 mil What am I not seeing?