Cost of serving billions of images per month
The numbers being thrown around on this post are staggering. Not the bandwidth, storage or or the number of images —they&#x27;re all pretty average for a small image host— but the casual tone that they&#x27;re willing to throw money at services rather than engineering some quite simple problems.<p>Seriously, I <i>know</i> I&#x27;m not in their shoes but I know what they do, I know popular options in these areas and I know they are literally throwing cash away by not trying to in-house any of this.<p>The worst thing is they seem <i>proud</i> about their decisions; that their current situation has justified $100K&#x2F;month expenses. I&#x27;m not the only person in here that thinks they could be delivering the same —even better— service on a fraction of their current budget, even after hiring. I think they should be ashamed.