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> but VPNs cost serious money to run

methinks you're talking out of your butthole right now. I run a VPN service. I can get away with about 100 users per dedicated host. That gives me an average CPU of $0.80. If I went with tier-1 datacenters, my cost would triple. Public cloud DCs bring my costs up ~25%.

These numbers shrink with scale (e.g. buying dedicated bandwidth, bringing your own bandwidth, colo and increase server density, etc). Also mozilla has $69m in cash as of 2016, without counting assets and investments. They are okay to host few thousand more servers.. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au...




It's not 100 users though, it's 250 million users and the infrastructure to balance them.

Whether or not you think my anus is more capable than you estimating the cost, for an organisation that relies on soft revenue, this is serious money.




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