Posted on 05/29/2006 11:11:16 AM PDT by neverdem
Drudge has lots of hits, but very low bandwidth usage compared to a site that streams video, or to some of the large download sites.
The ISPs need customers, end user customers. If they start knocking off low bandwidth political sites, some portion of their subscribers will just cancel the service. they aren't going to be able to make that up, selling high bandwidth licenses to hosts. and their total audience will be less.
bandwidth is bandwidth - if you have a site that has mostly text based content, and thus uses low bandwidth compared to others with more media rich content - you will always be able to buy a pipe somewhere, from someone, to get on the internet with it. the cost of communications facilities, is and has been plumetting.
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