# million bucks a month to keep the lights on

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/million-bucks-a-month-to-keep-the-lights-on/239937
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**Created:** [November 3, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/million-bucks-a-month-to-keep-the-lights-on/239937 "2008-11-03T10:08:55Z")
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### Author: ![Singh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@Singh1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Singh1)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/million-bucks-a-month-to-keep-the-lights-on/239937/1 "2008-11-03T10:08:55Z")

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cool lil article that popped up on my top 10 [de.li.co.us](http://de.li.co.us)

> **[Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.](https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/31/facebooks-growing-problem/)**
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> When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many...

a mill a month for electricity and 500 grand in bandwidth and 2 million a WEEk for storage…

HA who am i complaining to about my server bills ! LOL

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### Author: ![SlackJ94](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slackj94/32/6325_2.png) [@SlackJ94](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SlackJ94)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/million-bucks-a-month-to-keep-the-lights-on/239937/2 "2008-11-03T12:14:38Z")

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I’d like to see Google’s bills.

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### Author: ![Singh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@Singh1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Singh1)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/million-bucks-a-month-to-keep-the-lights-on/239937/3 "2008-11-03T13:03:42Z")

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ya no kidding huh

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### Author: ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/million-bucks-a-month-to-keep-the-lights-on/239937/4 "2008-11-04T06:57:17Z")

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ya, well, im sure theyre still making out well enough not to lose money and shut down. ive always wanted to come up with a silly idea like that for a site that turns out to work THAT damn well. good for them