The article also claims huge hosting/bandwidth costs. It completely ignores the fact that Spotify is a p2p application that doesn't seem to use a major CDN. Pr

The article also claims huge hosting/bandwidth costs. It completely ignores the fact that Spotify is a p2p application that doesn't seem to use a major CDN. Pricing used is in that article is CDN pricing. For content streamed from origin servers, they're almost certainly peering a lot of that bandwidth away. The article uses Rackspace cloud pricing as an example. Spotify doesn't seem to run on any cloud either - they seemingly run things in-house. What is it about journalists just loving to claim huge infrastructural costs?