My little corner

Oct

Does Google print their own money?

Google, I need more space for my Gmail Account

Image by Brajeshwar via Flickr

Well I am trying out a new plugin today on my Blog so you may see me moving into a different style for my posts. I will do a post about the plugin and give you my views on how easy it was to use and all that stuff in a later post.

I was reading a post on the Dreamhost blog entitled How to Make Money. It was quite an insightful article about how possibly banks work with money, practically making money out of thin air (read customer trust).

The writer then proclaims that they “make” bandwidth and disk space in the same way. They actually resell their resources many times, i.e. They buy 1GB of disk space and sell 10GB knowing that their customers will very rarely use the full amount of disk space that has been issued to them.

I got to thinking that this is the same way probably that Google can freely give everyone who has a Gmail account 7GB of disk space. I had been wondering about the cost Google is paying for this free service they are offering the world. I knew that there were some calculations involved to plan disk buying to cover future use, however I didn’t think it was as easy as laid out in the post. It makes sense though because I am only using about a 7th of my allocation on gmail and I consider myself to be a heavy user.

What do you guys think? Do you have a gmail account? How much of your allocation are you using?

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