about Steven.. he made our load drop from 300 down to 15 .. now if that isnt a change?  :Thmbsup:

@renegade .. 0.03€/GB is a normal rate for anything above 10TB/month
everything depends on the amount of consumtion.. thats what your local supermarket lives of
they have to throw out lets say atleast 20-40% of the food (isnt that awfull?) .. but they still make money because they get a good price for the things they buy..

and I like those numbers too :D I just dont think that I will get that many users in the next months.. but I'm happy with 50-100k users a day.. and thats very realistic.. we get that amount of traffic on keepmyfile

thanks carol for the thumbs up ;)

renegade.. the site is slow because of load-issues (as edvard wrote)..
thats because of keepmyfile.com - but I'm currently having Steven from rack911 have a look at it.

About costs:
I'm planning on making money with that site.. not loose it
I will add one google-ad onto the most pages - ofcourse not annoying places etc..
hotlinking large images will not be allowed.. thumbs only.. and that gets us hits
I'm planning on offering pro accounts that pay their own bandwidth for hotlinking the large versions

basicaly we have a good bandwidth price.. 0.03€/GB
we make money on keepmyfile.com with a file limit of 20MB .. so you can calculate the profit of a site that hosts images only.

lets do a quick calculation there .. lets take flickr into the spotlight:
16 million users a day.. each about 10 impressions
lets say they would have one ad per page
--> 160 million impressions per day
lets say the sponsor pais about 0.35$ CPM
so thats 56000$ a day
lets say roughly every page and its images are about 0.5MB
--> that makes about 76TB transfer per day.. lets make that an even number: 100TB
and now lets say you have a crapy bandwidth price: 50$ per TB .. --> so thats about 5000$ a day..
hm.. now what shall we do with the other 51000$ :D
lets pay 5 overpaid admins for watching the servers.. each 8 hours per day.. they dont work too much ;)
and lets give them 30$/hour .. ok.. so thats 1200$
lets not forget the rack-space and server costs.. etc etc etc..
at the end you'll have atleast 30000$ left per day..

get my calculations ;)