A warm ☕ welcome to all 🤗

A speed test is far less time-consuming than drinking a coffee ☕

• A typical internet speed test is very quick, usually finishing in about 30 to 60 seconds ⌛

• Drinking a cup of coffee, on the other hand, almost always takes several minutes (at least 5-15 minutes) to sip and enjoy, especially if it's hot 🥵

You could easily run multiple speed tests in the time it takes to finish one coffee 😜

A question while we're having an espresso. 

How much do the servers that run speed tests cost? 😱 

Tell me more 😊

⭐The price of a server to bring a speed test to consumers can range from $10 per month for a simple internal test to over $1,000 per month for a public, high-performance server.

⭐The server's price is not a single number; it's a combination of three factors:

1. Software Licensing (Often free)

2. Server Hardware (One-time or monthly fee)

3. Bandwidth (The biggest and most important cost)

Here is a breakdown of the realistic costs for different scenarios.

⭐The Most Important Cost: Bandwidth

⭐A speed test server's entire job is to use as much data as possible, as fast as possible. 

⭐The bandwidth cost will always be the most expensive part of a public server. A single 1Gbps speed test can use several gigabytes of data. A popular server will transfer petabytes of data, costing a fortune in metered plans 🤑