How Do Filehosts Earn Money?

[m107]

i guess... there are some investors who plan to start such things....

Yeah, I think so

[WebKobra]

Are they planning some kind of monopoly?

[AndreasB]

^ Who exactly are you talking about?

[Whoo]

Im pretty sure they are making very good profit and that everything has been calculated even before they started else they wouldn't stick around for so long.

[Azo]

Alright, so I've got a question for those of you who owns filehosts (Like Ricky).
How do you earn all the money needed to pay your uploaders? I assume premium memberships would give some income, but I can't see that enough people buys memberships to pay off all the uploaders, right?

From what I can see, expenses would be:
- Servers
- Techs
- Domain(s)
- Salary
- Payouts for uploaders

And incomes:
- Premium memberships

Lol. First of all, where from you got that Ricky is owner of Fileserve? He's most likely just some account manager.

Pretty much the only income is premium account sales and be sure it makes good cash I doubt any current file host actually pays you more than 50-60% of what you make them.

[Dejan84]

They work for mafia and they launder money!