Markus said as early as 2006 that he was spending "hundreds of thousands" to build out his servers/storage.
He's been scaling up instead of out. Which is cheaper up to a certain point and then it becomes a lot more expensive.
The image of some guy running this site off a couple of servers tucked under his desk is pretty far from reality with PlentyOfFish. He's probably spent $1 million+ dollars on his "few" servers by now. Still impressive to be sure, but nothing like the way it's portrayed.
He's been scaling up instead of out. Which is cheaper up to a certain point and then it becomes a lot more expensive.
The image of some guy running this site off a couple of servers tucked under his desk is pretty far from reality with PlentyOfFish. He's probably spent $1 million+ dollars on his "few" servers by now. Still impressive to be sure, but nothing like the way it's portrayed.