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I'm really interested in this deal. It's always been a bit of an enigma to me how imgur makes money, especially since they have been bootstrapping. I wonder if the numbers looked good to a16z, or if they saw the incredible growth potential of having a large interest in the youtube of images (as frade33 characterized it).


They make money by showing ads that get millions of views per day and most likely selling information about their users.


Well, duh ;) I'm just impressed, given the significant bandwidth, that the advertising has been capable of sustaining itself so far.


A high traffic image sharing site can actually be pretty cheap to run. Cloudflare gives you an unlimited bandwidth CDN and incoming bandwidth to S3 is free (uploads can be done directly from the browser).

Source: I help run https://surfer.io/


I think your idea of high traffic is pretty low, Cloudflare will expect you to be on the enterprise plan when you have actual high traffic.


…which is, on average, $5K/month. Not exactly a ton of money.


An average without context is not useful information.

When I last checked, a sample price for Cloudflare is $3k for 100TB. Cloudflare is far from the cheap option when it comes to serving content.


Hmm, I hadn't thought about them using cloudflare. I wonder what the costs are at that scale.


Nothing is unlimited, Cloudflare won't bother you until you use a lot of bandwidth.


Oh yeah, CF is a life-saver for sites on a budget




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