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It looks like in 2012 they transferred 42PB of data, which is pretty crazy. I assume their numbers are far higher now. It's impressive they can make it all work.

I didn't know that Reddit had invested money in the company either, that could potentially be a pretty big boon for them.

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They use Edgecast's CDN (which is now owned by Verizon?)

https://www.edgecast.com/company/news/edgecast-powers-imgur

Off the top of my head, I think they offer their bigger clients pricing of $0.02-0.04 per gigabyte. I could be wrong though.

44040192gb *0.02 = $880,803 / 12 = $73,400/month.

Looks like they don't anymore

$ curl -sI http://i.imgur.com/S1iGm2E.jpg | grep Server

Server: cloudflare-nginx

I wonder if 42PB of data would trigger a bandwidth cap on my T-Mobile unlimited 4G plan.

Most "unlimited" plans have caps where they throttle you bandwidth. So you would never reach 42PB per month anyway, let alone 42PB ever.

That was sort of the joke, but T-Mobile has real unlimited with no throttling or caps.

I think that if you got to the point where you're using a significant amount of mobile data and you alone are impacting other customers' experience significantly, they'd ask you to knock it off.

Oh, you still haven't reached the point of pissing them off with your abuse.

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