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by boxed 1342 days ago
> The actual website costs are only $2-3 million per year, and have declined over the past decade?

The HOSTING cost. Not the total cost to run it. That's a big difference.

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It’s my understanding that a large percentage of hosting costs are donated by large companies like Google…
Again: irrelevant. Hosting costs are often quite small compared to the ops and dev costs.