Sales of outgoing traffic
Many of us, and maybe even everyone, at least once in their life thought about the question - where do such multimillion services as vkontakte.ru, rapidshare.com and others get money for existence from? Everything seems to be clear: rapidshare.com sells paid accounts; vkontakte.ru lives at the expense of investors, hoping to make a profit in the future. Recently, an interesting thought occurred to me that explains how such services exist on the web.
Take a primitive Internet connection scheme that four elements will go to: you, your local network (district, city), your local network provider (let it be GT [Golden Telecom]) and, accordingly, the data center where the servers are located from which you get traffic (movies, music, text information, in short, anything).
Which local network you would not connect to, what tariff you would not have, you will pay for incoming traffic. Now, many will remember about anlim, but even here, no matter how much you want, traffic is still limited, but not by the number of megabytes, but by speed. The next link in our chain is your local network provider. Here the relationship is the same as between you and the local network. Your local network pays for all incoming traffic that you generate.
And now the fun part. In our case, the server from which you download information is connected to the provider of your local network, that is, to golden telecom. This means that the traffic between the server and the provider will be local, in other words free. It turns out that the money received by the provider from your local network is deposited by the provider and he, in turn, has the right to dispose of them as he pleases. It is not hard to guess that it is beneficial for the provider to have a large number of servers using its services, but it is even more profitable for these servers to generate as much outgoing traffic as possible because the provider will receive money from local networks for it. And what is the best way to attract owners of large services that generate huge amounts of traffic? Naturally share profits. (Recall Google with its adsense.) Then everything seems to be understandable. Vkontakte.ru, rutube.ru and other services host their servers in the data centers connected to our provider, you download gigabytes of information, pay your local network, it pays the provider, and that shares the profits with the owners of the servers.
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Perhaps this is nonsense, perhaps the way it is. In any case, I propose to discuss.
[ copy in my blog ]
Take a primitive Internet connection scheme that four elements will go to: you, your local network (district, city), your local network provider (let it be GT [Golden Telecom]) and, accordingly, the data center where the servers are located from which you get traffic (movies, music, text information, in short, anything).
Which local network you would not connect to, what tariff you would not have, you will pay for incoming traffic. Now, many will remember about anlim, but even here, no matter how much you want, traffic is still limited, but not by the number of megabytes, but by speed. The next link in our chain is your local network provider. Here the relationship is the same as between you and the local network. Your local network pays for all incoming traffic that you generate.
And now the fun part. In our case, the server from which you download information is connected to the provider of your local network, that is, to golden telecom. This means that the traffic between the server and the provider will be local, in other words free. It turns out that the money received by the provider from your local network is deposited by the provider and he, in turn, has the right to dispose of them as he pleases. It is not hard to guess that it is beneficial for the provider to have a large number of servers using its services, but it is even more profitable for these servers to generate as much outgoing traffic as possible because the provider will receive money from local networks for it. And what is the best way to attract owners of large services that generate huge amounts of traffic? Naturally share profits. (Recall Google with its adsense.) Then everything seems to be understandable. Vkontakte.ru, rutube.ru and other services host their servers in the data centers connected to our provider, you download gigabytes of information, pay your local network, it pays the provider, and that shares the profits with the owners of the servers.
')
Perhaps this is nonsense, perhaps the way it is. In any case, I propose to discuss.
[ copy in my blog ]
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/24985/
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