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Originally posted by Alexandre.Lefebvre
Some of us are also thinking about removing it all together because the cost of making the software to managing it could be higher than the disk space
WTF?! Based on 5,000,000* users, all using 50Mb space (to capacity) it works out to about 240Tb. When I bought my 1Tb driver it was £100. I'm sure they're cheaper now, but at £100 each, it's £24,000~.
That may be a bit much, I can understand that. I also understand that it's possible to drop that price significantly by bulk-buying stuff.
I'm just wondering why it'd cost over £24,000 (or more if you based your prices on more users) to write software to manage the servers? Surely, there must be software already written for this?
I based it on 5,000,000 users, because I don't see more people than that actually using the chat logging feature (at least online). Out of 50,000,000 users, I could speculate around half are going to be established Plus! users re-downloading or doing a manual update from the website. I would say 1 in 5 people use the chat log feature (may be more, but online logging would be around this - There are under 17,000 myPlus accounts).
This is based only on numbers that I can make an educated guess with. If anyone has figures for this then it'd be great 
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