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Originally Posted by kinetic
They are shutting down this service in September and any
such service will come at an additional cost....
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The reason for this must purely be
greed, because it costs bugger all to host non-commercial webpages.
Almost all ISPs provide a 10mb personal webspace for free with the account. My ISP provides me with 30mb. How many people have personal webpages? 10%? 5%?
My maths is not the best, but a 1 Terrabyte($200?) drive can store 100,000 personal webpages(at a full 10 Mb each). If Big Pond has 2 million customers, 10% would be 200,000 people. So 2 Terrabytes($400?) is sufficient to handle the required space for data.
2 modern servers with quad core CPU and 4 GB of RAM could each have a 1 TB drive. The cost to have a 10Mb webspace would be an insignificant fraction of the cost of an ISP account with Telstra, so their only motivation is greed.
EDIT: And gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail etc. provide 1 GB space for email to hundreds of millions of people for FREE. Telstra made $4 Billion profit last year.