One year and half ago, it was calculated and then confirmed by an admin[1] that the monthly cost was around 22K/month, or 270K/year. jedberg added that they were projecting to be around 350K/year by the end of 2010.
Supposing that the cost increased linearly with the number of users (which sounds like a bad hypothesis, but is a start), the cost at the end of 2011 could be around 1M/year... That's impressive, but nowhere near the 300K/month proposed by rdouble.
So I would say that the monthy cost of reddit's infrastructure is around 90K. Which is really impressive.
You're probably right as I calculated with expensive instances. Also, when I made my estimate I was guessing at image storage costs, forgetting that the images are coming from image sharing sites.
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One year and half ago, it was calculated and then confirmed by an admin[1] that the monthly cost was around 22K/month, or 270K/year. jedberg added that they were projecting to be around 350K/year by the end of 2010.
Supposing that the cost increased linearly with the number of users (which sounds like a bad hypothesis, but is a start), the cost at the end of 2011 could be around 1M/year... That's impressive, but nowhere near the 300K/month proposed by rdouble.
So I would say that the monthy cost of reddit's infrastructure is around 90K. Which is really impressive.
1: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/ctz7c/your_gold_dollar...
You're probably right as I calculated with expensive instances. Also, when I made my estimate I was guessing at image storage costs, forgetting that the images are coming from image sharing sites.
Thanks for the clarification, I thought $300k sounded a little off since cluda01 asked about estimated monthly (not annual) cost.
A year and a half is a long time in reddit time