Re:The Economics of Dropbox
by orijing on Thursday April 21, 2011 @01:22PM
(#2471439)
> I assumed that the average user will make 10 put/copy/list requests and 10 get requests daily
Did those assumptions seem ridiculously low to anyone else too? My Dropbox is constantly syncing. Every time I save a file, move a file, delete a file, on any of my connected devices, I am making a request. I would estimate that I make nearly 500-1000 requests a day.
That also suggests that the total bytes transferred is a lot more than the author estimates.
I am pretty certain that Dropbox pays more for the requests/transfers than it does for space nominally.
Another thing: Did the author neglect the "30 day versioning" (or forever-backup) feature that Dropbox has? I think each user probably consumes a lot more than the suggested few hundred megs (average), in part because of all the changes.
Re:The Economics of Dropbox
by tgriesser on Thursday April 21, 2011 @03:07PM
(#2471905)
Since the changes/uploads of the files are just diff's of the existing files rather than full copies for each version, I can't imagine that the versioning would add too much to the author's rough estimations.
Did those assumptions seem ridiculously low to anyone else too? My Dropbox is constantly syncing. Every time I save a file, move a file, delete a file, on any of my connected devices, I am making a request. I would estimate that I make nearly 500-1000 requests a day.
That also suggests that the total bytes transferred is a lot more than the author estimates.
I am pretty certain that Dropbox pays more for the requests/transfers than it does for space nominally.
Another thing: Did the author neglect the "30 day versioning" (or forever-backup) feature that Dropbox has? I think each user probably consumes a lot more than the suggested few hundred megs (average), in part because of all the changes.