Cost and Steps of starting an own FileHosting Service

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DeathBasher

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Hello Everybody out there,

Background story:
A few days ago meeting my friends i just came up with the idea of an own FileHosting Service.
We all (5 guys) are into programming websites and everything. Not really good but well :D

I just put down some ideas of the whole structure:

1 Server in offshore for the domain and front panel the user is looking at
3/4 Servers (beginning) for the files with good connection to europa and the USA
1/2 Domains for the Website (offshore) so it's not so easy to get the domains down

To get users i would say a referral-system would be nice!
Like all big och's (ul, so, ...) there would be a premium account option. But free users also have a "high" download speed (like 10 mbit/s) and unlimited downloads.
So a kind of the old conditions from Rapidsahre!
Also i would recommend an easy "moderation"-tool, where abused files are displayed and can deleted by one click!

I just read and old Thread about this topic.
All in all with a complete script and with the servers the costs would be like 25000 for the first 4 months. But this was from 2012. I was wondering if the prices would be the same.

Is the idea itself good, what things i have to look at and care about?
What would be the costs (script, server, domain, ...)?

Greetings!
 
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