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MacRumors - revenues generated and cost of running?

Yes yes, that is all very well and good.

How much did the hosting cost for January, for example. No need to get all philosophical about the "value" of stuff.
 
Allotriophagy, if you really want the information, you'll need to formally put in a request to purchase MacRumors... :D good luck with that, lol

Otherwise, asking what revenues are generated and cost of operation is like asking someone for their financial statement and salary receipts.
 
spicyapple said:
Allotriophagy, if you really want the information, you'll need to formally put in a request to purchase MacRumors... good luck with that, lol
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Not sure how much I would be willing to pay for an internet forum and content generated by unpaid strangers. :s
 
Allotriophagy said:
How much did the hosting cost for January, for example. No need to get all philosophical about the "value" of stuff.
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It's not being philosophical, it's just being aware of the normal way the cost of a site is calculated. In the majority of cases, if you wanted to host an event of the type size of a MacRumorsLive-covered keynote you would be hiring a company to design and run the system - even if you were a big business with plenty of resources, it's very specialised so would tend to be contracted out. They would charge you based on the time they spent as well as the hosting costs.

Any figures we could come up with would be misleading because we didn't 'commission' or host the site in a normal way.
 
could you give a range of just the Macrumorslive, just a range with what it would cost the "average" entity to run something like that. If thats inappropriate to ask, then sorry.
 
spicyapple said:
Allotriophagy, if you really want the information, you'll need to formally put in a request to purchase MacRumors... :D good luck with that, lol

Otherwise, asking what revenues are generated and cost of operation is like asking someone for their financial statement and salary receipts.
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hehehe I remember a guy wanting to Buy MacRumors.
 
BigPrince said:
could you give a range of just the Macrumorslive, just a range with what it would cost the "average" entity to run something like that. If thats inappropriate to ask, then sorry.
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Lot of variables obviously, but if you gave a web development company of any decent size (i.e. not just a guy down the road doing stuff in DreamWeaver) a brief to create a site for 200k simultaneous visitors they'd probably think you were joking. After they realised you weren't, I wouldn't be surprised if the figure was into tens of thousands of dollars. Plus charges for each time you used it of thousands of dollars, possibly more.

If you were a large company and went to one of the really big web development companies you could probably quadruple the prices.

If you tried to do it in-house it would largely depend on what knowledge you or people you knew/employed had already. Sticking some PHP on a few Apache servers was never going to be an option so you have to know about the alternative ways of writing and hosting the site, or spend time researching. I don't think I'd be exaggerating saying there have been hundreds of hours of work put into MacRumorsLive over the years (the first version was written in December 2004).

A figure that I've just remembered that might demonstrate the costs involved - I was quoted $200/hr for a technician to be available during the keynote at one of the hosting companies that specialises in streaming media.
 
...bottom line, excluding man-power required, direct hardware/bandwidth-related costs were probably under $1000 to prepare for the [Macworld SF Keynote day]... and the reason it was so cheap is it was designed to be very efficient.
 
How much bandwidth does MR suck down on a regular basis, Is it normal for a site this size. I would imagine that is where a lot of the expense comes from.
 
Yes I would like to purchase the site for (pinky up) 1 billion dollars.

That such a crazy idea but it would be cool to be a god on the forum.


Is this a full time Job for you arn? or something more on the side?
 
MacNut said:
How much bandwidth does MR suck down on a regular basis, Is it normal for a site this size. I would imagine that is where a lot of the expense comes from.
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These days, once a site gets to the size where it needs a dedicated server bandwidth isn't usually an issue - unless of course the site is primarily hosting files for download (photos, video, music etc.). Even the cheap dedicated servers come with vast amounts of bandwidth - I have 1.5TB each with mine (that is 'raw' bandwidth so will include email, ftp and anything else the server is used for)

With MacRumors, I'm not sure about the normal monthly figures but the only recent time where bandwidth was a concern was with the results of the 3 million post contest - that used over 750GB in a few days, over and above the usual bandwidth usage.
 
MacNut said:
How much bandwidth does MR suck down on a regular basis, Is it normal for a site this size. I would imagine that is where a lot of the expense comes from.
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looks like we've transfered 1,054GB in the last thirty days. and this remains an on-the-side sort of job.

arn
 
jsw said:
Switzermac.
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damn! that's almost as funny as when I made a thread asking for help creating the greatest OS ever...
Since then I realized that making big software takes a bit more than some knowledge of terminal, lots of geek lingo, xcode tools,and all of the darwin source code in a folder in your documents folder.:p
 
wmmk said:
damn! that's almost as funny as when I made a thread asking for help creating the greatest OS ever...
Since then I realized that making big software takes a bit more than some knowledge of terminal, lots of geek lingo, xcode tools,and all of the darwin source code in a folder in your documents folder.:p
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Thats was a thread to remember ;)

Honestly, I didn't know that was you, but then you didn't have a "tar , and being the shallow, shallow person I am, that how I remeber people here:p
 
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