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Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:02:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ray Sanders writes:
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> A few days before the change at BrickShelf, I happened to be looking at the
> server stats. IIRC, the daily usage from the prior *day* was something like 25GB
> of traffic. Most hosting sites stop quoting at 100GB/month, so extrapolating
> from their 100GB + $x.xx per additional MB left me with a large number,
> somewhere in the vicinity of $10K/month. Now, maybe my numbers here are messed
> up somewhere, but it would appear that we have been getting a tremendous free
> lunch for quite a while.
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> Ray
You hit the nail right on the head. The hosting does cost thousands of dollars
per month. That had been subsidised entirely by my employer (who also used the
bandwidth, rack space and servers). This new situation (employer trying not to
go out of business) presents an interesting business challenge.
KL
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| (...) This in mind - I don't think there is a legal issue with charging for the service of making copyrighted material _available_. The same as the POV license saying you can include POV on a CD so long as what you charge for the CD covers your (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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| "Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:Gs45GF.2s2@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) like 25GB (...) extrapolating (...) messed (...) free (...) dollars (...) used the (...) not to (...) How about selling directly to LEGO? I wonder if (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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| (...) A few days before the change at BrickShelf, I happened to be looking at the server stats. IIRC, the daily usage from the prior *day* was something like 25GB of traffic. Most hosting sites stop quoting at 100GB/month, so extrapolating from (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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