Originally posted by: xTrunkZx
Direct Downloads = Lots of Bandwidth

Lots of Bandwidth = Lots of Money

Lots of Money = Hard to Find on your own


Solution = charge for use...


Pretty soon 3$ per person will not turn into a profit... but they'll actually be breaking even when around 300 people join and even b4 that money is coming out of their pockets so they will in no way make a profit. By my speculations... they'll actually be losing money b4 they ever even seen a dollar over the cost of a server to handle this type of traffic

You really don't know much about bw and server costs do you?

A media server costs $69 a month and includes 1 TB of bw.


So now lets do the math

300 people paying $3 a month comes out to $900 a month

13 servers at $69 a month give you 13 TB of bandwidth and cost $897 a month

Naruto 1-80 is around 14-16 GB, 300 people downloading 14-16 gb comes out to around 4.2-4.8 TB


So in total it would cost them $345 to purchase the 5 TB to maintain these 300 people.

Of course this is assuming that all 300 people download all of Naruto, obviously MOST people will NOT download all the eps and most definately will not do it every month.

In reality they would probably need less than 1 TB for 300 people since 90% of them will just download the latest episode.

So that's $69 a month to keep 300+ people happy, under realistic conditions.

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