FileShoppe - With instant payouts! Not your typical file host

[FShoppe]

That is A LOT of traffic. Certainly it is not something we would be doing, at least not any time soon.

FYI, at 1cent per GB, a normal file host would need to be able to buy bandwidth at less than $3.00 just to break even (probably closer to $1 or $2 if you take overhead into consideration).

If you imagine the average file is 500MB, and the file host claims to pay $40 /1000 downloads, 600GB in 2 weeks means 1,200 downloads. So where the downloader is paying $6.00 for those downloads, the file host needs to pay at least $42!

A net loss of $36!

It's no wonder there are so many claims of 'scams'.

FShoppe Reviewed by FShoppe on 29th Feb 2012. FileShoppe - With instant payouts! Not your typical file host www.FileShoppe.net Update: Though this should be obvious. Copyright material is NOT allowed without the express permission of the copyright holder. FileShoppe is a pay-per-download file host running two primary services. 1. Paid downloads, where the uploader sets their own price and retains 100% of their earnings less our $0.01 per 100MB fee. 2. Free downloads, where the content is made freely available to downloaders with certain restrictions imposed (such as reduced speed). These Rating: 5

[mentegatto]

If you imagine the average file is 500MB, and the file host claims to pay $40 /1000 downloads, 600GB in 2 weeks means 1,200 downloads. So where the downloader is paying $6.00 for those downloads, the file host needs to pay at least $42!

Actually Netload has a basic revenue (lower rank) for uploaders of 0.5c per GB, that's half what they get from downloaders in nearly worst case scenario (user downloading 24h/24h with an "ordinary" speed connection), this seems sustainable for them because AFAIK they have always paid their bill.
However, as you said, this is not what you would like to do, so any comparision is not meaningfull.
I believe that your method of billing and paying is a sort of "revolution" in the file-hosting world.
I wish you good luck with your business.

[FShoppe]

Yes adult material is acceptable.

$0.05 /GB? How do they manage this? It has always illuded me how file hosts could actually make money unless their subscribers downloaded less than 50GB /month.

Thanks again for the cudos!