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Re:How a spare server turned into Twitpic, the $1.5M+ a year... by dusklight on Thursday January 14, 2010 @08:12PM (#1053989)
Question for noah, if he's willing to answer it:

You said that currently you have $1.5M+ revenues, and margins of 70%. What are the current cost breakdowns right now? Other than salary, what other ongoing costs do you have?

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Re:How a spare server turned into Twitpic, the $1.5M+ a year... by ynniv on Friday January 15, 2010 @03:02AM (#1054486)
You have to serve a lot of content to make $1.5M in advertising.
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Re:How a spare server turned into Twitpic, the $1.5M+ a year... by sewerhorse on Friday January 15, 2010 @04:26AM (#1054556)
well i guess the cdn costs is trough the roof when the core functionality of your site is photo sharing.
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