If they go over alotted bandwidth... add up about $200-$400 maybe.
Their time.... let's say its worth on the low-end $10,000 a month for both Amanda and Andrew.
Everything else.... either not recurring fees or mesh with living expenses (apartment, travel, food, equipment).
If you take away the value of time variable.... then the show could feasibly be run for less than $1000 a month, and if they are splitting the costs between them or among others involved.... or if they have a special hosting agreement... then that is much lower....
If they adjust other areas of spending in their lives.... they could prob look at it as breaking even.
ie. no more starbucks and cook more often...
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sull
On 2/6/06, Jen Simmons <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From the Rocketboom about page:
"we spend $0 on promotion, relying entirely on word-of-mouth, and close
to $0 on distribution because bandwidth costs and space are so
inexpensive."
Yeah, right.
3 dedicated servers with 12 terabytes of data transfer are
"inexpensive" for us all.
- or rather -
Rocketboom costs "close to $0" in that "I don't have to make money
cause I live off my trust fund"-kind-of-a-way.
It drives me nuts that Andrew perpetually insists that he makes the
show for free or close-to-free. It's cheaper than ABC World News
Tonight -- for sure! That's what should be celebrated, not this idea
that any kid in the barrio should be able to make Rocketboom with their
bus money (if they even have 85 cents for the Vía bus). I'm working
four jobs to pay the rent, and while I'd like to work on my videoblog
show all day every day, 3 to 4 hours a week is the most I ever get --
not 5 x 8-10-hour days, working with a collaborator I've hired.
Promotion is $0?? Again, only to someone who doesn't understand that
_all_ time is money when you freelance, and that top-tier contacts from
elite schools and an Manhattan address are not free.
Oh, and maybe someone can explain to Andrew the difference between hits
and individual viewers. 150,000 hits does not equate to 150,000 people.
just my rant of the day... I'll shut-up and go back to grading, so I
can hopefully write up some bids before I crash, and get up tomorrow to
go teach again... and maybe one of these days I'll have half a day to
work on my films.
jen
> Here is the quote from Andrew:
> >>>To provide a reference point for the conversation, Rocketboom
> currently uses 1 dedicated 100mbs server on Dreamhost to handle the
> database and webpages alone and 2 dedicated 100mbs servers on Datagram
> to host the videos and the images, for a total of a 300mbit/sec pipe
> size. The 2 datagram servers are mirror images (they both hold the
> same video and image files) and every single request for a video or
> image is alternated like a switch back and forth to each of the two
> servers. Our audience number is about 150,000/day of steady flow and
> every video now gets over 250,000 downloads (mostly reaching that
> number over the course of a few days). Last month we used 12 terabytes
> of data transfer on the two Datagram servers and not more than a
> Terrabyte on the Dreamhost server (mostly html and xml pages). <<<
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