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We're really heating up the wires now! Let's add two more T1 lines to nile.com. Yippee.com is limited by the database at this point, so there's no reason to add more lines.

Next Page: Scaling step #8: Even more database power!

Nile.com bottom line:

Initial Engineering $72,000

HW investment: $221,700

Network: $4000/month.

Max ppm: 480 (limited by 4 T1 lines with DB close behind)

Max profit: $2,304,000/month