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[Esau]

Great site but they must use a heck of a lot of bandwidth. How do they stay afloat?

[justanton → Esau]

There was a blog post about it explaining this in detail: https://crew.co/backstage/dispatch/what-does-unsplash-cost/

[lisper → justanton]

That blog post explains the costs but not the revenues. How are they funded?

[danso → lisper]

They wrote a post about that too https://crew.co/backstage/blog/how-side-projects-saved-our-s...

Unsplash is apparently crew.co's highest source of referrals, so i guess it's a loss leader

[TylerE → justanton]

Some of that just seems insane. $1,000/month for logging?

[corobo → TylerE]

Log analysis. Storing a dump of .log files is probably cheap (.log.gz cheaper) but actually using those logs is where the cost comes in.

[Esau → justanton]

Thank you!