Youtube $1million a month bandwidth bills

TekKen · 06-06-2006, 01:43 AM

Only just saw this article recently pretty crazy huh? Over 200 terabytes used a day.
http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinf...0428video.html

Kalina · 06-06-2006, 04:24 AM

Dayum...

John Scott · 06-06-2006, 06:57 AM

I wouldn't mind all that traffic.

reteep · 06-06-2006, 08:41 AM

At least in Europe many providers got "Unlimited Traffic" now..

Fruit & Veg · 06-06-2006, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by reteep

At least in Europe many providers got "Unlimited Traffic" now..

Read the small print.

DarrenC · 06-06-2006, 03:10 PM

I have to ask Fruit & Veg, why Ron Atkinson?

The massive cost on bandwith, but how do they earn an income from the website? I've only visited a few times, but can't see anything thats going to generate them a profit.

Fruit & Veg · 06-06-2006, 03:15 PM

There's Google ads top and bottom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-rcjaBWvx0 plus they have a userbase they probably email and advertise to. Plus healthy funding goes someway to putting bread on the table - http://www.youtube.com/t/pr_060405_funding

I doubt they make a profit though....but neither does (or did until fairly recently) Amazon.

Also, from this page - http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet

Quote:

Business Model

YouTube is pursuing advertising as its business model, and is exploring a range of possibilities including promotions, sponsorships, contextual-based advertising, traditional banner advertising, etc. But more than anything else, we're committed to providing the best consumer experience to watch, upload, and share videos. When building a community, it is critical to get the model right.

(Ron's the man.....you know, until that French game commentating debacle)

reteep · 06-07-2006, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Fruit & Veg

Read the small print.

There's none. It's a price war between hosting providers. One started with unlimited traffic and the others followed..

John Scott · 06-07-2006, 02:52 AM

In Japan bandwidth is cheap. I was looking into server colocation in Tokyo and they say that Tokyo is so well connected that bandwidth is essentially free.

DaveyBoy · 06-07-2006, 03:11 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnScott

In Japan bandwidth is cheap. I was looking into server colocation in Tokyo and they say that Tokyo is so well connected that bandwidth is essentially free.

What the hell do you know, you're 15?!?!

TekKen · 06-07-2006, 04:39 AM

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Originally Posted by reteep

There's none. It's a price war between hosting providers. One started with unlimited traffic and the others followed..

Lol ofcourse there is small print. Do you think if youtube signed up for an unlimited bandwidth account and used 200 terabytes a day it would be included in there package? Unlimited packages always have small print its just marketing to bring in more customers.

John Scott · 06-07-2006, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by TekKen

Lol ofcourse there is small print. Do you think if youtube signed up for an unlimited bandwidth account and used 200 terabytes a day it would be included in there package? Unlimited packages always have small print its just marketing to bring in more customers.

Usually when there's unlimited bandwidth the disc space is limited. Like, 500MB or even 100MB. With limits like that on the disc space, it's not likely that they could do a huge amount of bandwidth even if they wanted to. And there are modules that govern the number of concurrent connections to a server, so the site would time out before it ever reached anything near 200 terabytes a day.

**James Trotta** · 06-07-2006, 12:50 PM

Just out of curiosity, will we be seeing V7 servers in Japan?

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Originally Posted by JohnScott

In Japan bandwidth is cheap. I was looking into server colocation in Tokyo and they say that Tokyo is so well connected that bandwidth is essentially free.

John Scott · 06-07-2006, 12:54 PM

Not immediately, but I expect to have servers in Tokyo before too long.

Daniel-Z · 06-07-2006, 07:44 PM

I wouldnt doubt they use that kinda bandwidth streaming video to shitloads of users all day long every day

agent14 · 06-07-2006, 09:15 PM

Youtube.com is a very popular website, check the alexa rankings, number 25.

TekKen · 06-08-2006, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Fruit & Veg

There's Google ads top and bottom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-rcjaBWvx0 plus they have a userbase they probably email and advertise to. Plus healthy funding goes someway to putting bread on the table - http://www.youtube.com/t/pr_060405_funding

I doubt they make a profit though....but neither does (or did until fairly recently) Amazon.

Also, from this page - http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet

(Ron's the man.....you know, until that French game commentating debacle)

Godaddy have reported huge losses every year they have been open. I think people would be surprised just how many companies dont make profit.

HostRefund · 06-09-2006, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by TekKen

Godaddy have reported huge losses every year they have been open. I think people would be surprised just how many companies dont make profit.

It's those $xxx,xxx,xxx retirement funds that the execs get

Kalina · 06-11-2006, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by DaveyBoy

What the hell do you know, you're 15?!?!

Lol, that was funny.