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I wondered how expensive their serves actually are. 1 month of reddit gold ($3.99) pays for ~276 server minutes at the moment, or so they say. That's about 0.01
by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I wondered how expensive their serves actually are. 1 month of reddit gold ($3.99) pays for ~276 server minutes at the moment, or so they say. That's about 0.0145 cent per minute. In a 30 day month there are 43200 minutes. Using these rounded numbers a month of hosting therefor would cost $626.4.
Though I highly doubt that figure is really that low (or doesn't include bandwith and similar, if applicable) I somewhat wish it was because that would be a sign of craftsmanship.
Unlike other similar companies who spend several hundred thousand dollars over two years just on hosting and go bankrupt, despite getting 1% of the traffic.
- pmtarantino 13y ago$626.4 would be for one server. $626 x 276 servers would be $172800 per month.
- joshmlewis 13y agoThanks for clearing that up. I've been wondering what the total figure was.
- zck 13y agoUnits, people! If you have $626.4 / (server month), how do you get to $172,800 / month? You need to multiply by servers. But what are our units on the 276 number you use? $3.99 = 276 server minutes. or 1 = $3.99 / (276 server minutes) Dollars per server-month. Not servers. You can't multiply by 276 and get dollars per month.
- pmtarantino 13y agoI misread, sorry. I thought $4 paid one minute for 276 servers.