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05-30-2005, 10:40 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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How could Megauplaod offer so much?
www.Megaupload.com now offers 500MB of upload space for users to share files with others. How in the world could they give so much?
We will host your file forever, until it is unused for 30 days. If nobody downloads your file for 30 days, its deleted automatically.Last edited by HD Fanatic; 05-30-2005 at 10:45 PM.
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05-30-2005, 10:43 PM #2Web Developer
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It could be a loss leader.. if your company is large enough, 25 servers is nothing. Plus, you can fit about a TB of data in one server, and not everyone will use a full 500MB. Even if they did, you could fit 2000 users on one server @$250/mo.
Google gives 1GB of email space away..
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05-30-2005, 10:53 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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What I can't figure out is how anyone can even use that, most of the time anything over like 50mb uploaded via a browser, times out on me and never goes through anyways..
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05-30-2005, 11:21 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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hahaha
- 25 servers
- 300.000 users a day (They just started, so its hard to belive)
- 50 TB Week (also hard to belive)
- One broke man
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05-30-2005, 11:25 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by Johnburk
hahaha
- 25 servers
- 300.000 users a day (They just started, so its hard to belive)
- 50 TB Week (also hard to belive)
- One broke man
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05-30-2005, 11:50 PM #6Temporarily Suspended
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They key is advertising..
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05-31-2005, 12:44 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Thats a nice site lol... i want one just like it but maybe host smaller files lol...
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05-31-2005, 02:28 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by adam
They key is advertising..
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05-31-2005, 03:44 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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They're probably minting it through google ads and the donation is probably getting the odd $5 here and there.
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05-31-2005, 04:35 AM #10Retired Moderator
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Google gives 1GB of email space away..
Also 1TB per server is pretty small. With Drive Enclosures or NAS they could have hundreds of TB available.Steve
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05-31-2005, 04:49 AM #11Temporarily Suspended
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Most files will be put up for downloading once or twice so the 30 day cycle will remove the majority of files i would assume.
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05-31-2005, 04:41 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by terfex
Most files will be put up for downloading once or twice so the 30 day cycle will remove the majority of files i would assume.