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They're probably not pushing even hundreds of Mbps - it's a 2MB site in total, and almost all of it is static, and will be cached by various proxies/etc. They might PEAK at a Gbps for the first few hours, and then fall off to a long tail of basically nothing. It's just not big - no serious images, no video, etc. And it's US only, not global. And most people will only hit the site one time, order and it's done. And even so, $2500/mo is 'free': just the paperwork to put the money on contract to the provider probably costs more than that by an order of magnitude.



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