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I'm really interested in this deal. It's always been a bit of an enigma to me how imgur makes money, especially since they have been bootstrapping. I wonder if
by jscheel 13y ago
I'm really interested in this deal. It's always been a bit of an enigma to me how imgur makes money, especially since they have been bootstrapping. I wonder if the numbers looked good to a16z, or if they saw the incredible growth potential of having a large interest in the youtube of images (as frade33 characterized it).
- rgbrgb 13y agoThey make money by showing ads that get millions of views per day and most likely selling information about their users.
- jscheel 13y agoWell, duh ;) I'm just impressed, given the significant bandwidth, that the advertising has been capable of sustaining itself so far.
- rgbrgb 13y agoA high traffic image sharing site can actually be pretty cheap to run. Cloudflare gives you an unlimited bandwidth CDN and incoming bandwidth to S3 is free (uploads can be done directly from the browser). Source: I help run https://surfer.io/ https://surfer.io/
- linuxydave 13y agoOh yeah, CF is a life-saver for sites on a budget
- Kudos 13y agoI think your idea of high traffic is pretty low, Cloudflare will expect you to be on the enterprise plan when you have actual high traffic.
- erichocean 13y ago…which is, on average, $5K/month. Not exactly a ton of money.
- Kudos 13y agoAn average without context is not useful information. When I last checked, a sample price for Cloudflare is $3k for 100TB. Cloudflare is far from the cheap option when it comes to serving content.
- jscheel 13y agoHmm, I hadn't thought about them using cloudflare. I wonder what the costs are at that scale.
- Thaxll 13y agoNothing is unlimited, Cloudflare won't bother you until you use a lot of bandwidth.