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Re:Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results by jjcm on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @11:07PM (#15649846)
Assuming half of it is bandwidth costs, that means that a daily active user is using ~380 MB/day (assuming $0.01/GB). That seems pretty hefty as an average. Especially if you consider the encoding snapchat uses puts each 10s video at about 1MB in size. 380MB is a little over an hour of snapchat quality video, that seems excessive as an average. If I were a major stockholder I'd be pushing to see why these hosting costs were so high.
Re:Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results by cstejerean on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:42AM (#15650142)
I think that’s $0.60 per quarter not per day. 380MB for the quarter per daily active user doesn’t seem that unreasonable.
Re:Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results by snaily on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:53AM (#15650974)
$0.60 for 380MB seems unreasonable, though. I think the GP was calculating based on the quarterly period.
Re:Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results by cstejerean on Thursday November 09, 2017 @09:20PM (#15667459)
Oh, you are right. I was thinking $0.006 not $0.60 when I did that math in my head.
Re:Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results by scurvy on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @11:50PM (#15649975)
CDN? Cross-region replication? DB replication/failsafe/backups? No idea, just spitballing.