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Don't forget that the purpose of the Internet Archive is primarily to be an open archive. In that sense, I'd imagine that bandwidth use is not really a factor,
by joepie91_ 11y ago
Don't forget that the purpose of the Internet Archive is primarily to be an open archive. In that sense, I'd imagine that bandwidth use is not really a factor, and anything that contributes to the longevity of the archive is welcome.
"It's costing us bandwidth" is only a relevant factor if your goal is to turn a profit, and the bandwidth use isn't contributing to that. An archive doesn't have the same considerations.
- andyjohnson0 11y agoI'm very aware that IA is an open, non-profit archive and I'm sure that they don't mind that other copies of the archive exist. My question was about the cost to IA of transferring 12 petabytes (according to Jason Scott [1]). Outbound bandwidth ultimately costs money. IA is a non-profit and "It's costing us bandwidth" is very relevant. For instance, here [2] are the charges for outgoing bandwidth on Rackspace cloud servers. The lowest quoted rate if £0.06/GB for up to about half a petabyte. IA won't be paying that much as they have their own infrastructure. But even if bandwidth only costs the IA $0.01/GB, 12PB would cost around $125k. 12PB is a lot of data. I don't know what IA pay for outbound bandwidth but it won't be zero. Thats all I was asking about. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602868 [2] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public-pricing#bandwidth http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public-pricing#bandwidth
- riking 11y agoKeep in mind, we're trying to make 3 copies of all this data - so multiply that bandwidth by 3.