they are, additionally, providing a predominantly free service to their users their profits are generated from income from ads (hence the requirement for PB users to not use adblockers) or from optional paid services (such as adfree or PB+). On the flip side, however, ProBoards is a much smaller company with much smaller financial gain. A fair amount of this is tied up in non-monetary assets, or will be funnelled back into keeping Cornell running, but in saying so affording dedicated hosting for any of their online endeavours shouldn't be a problem, and thus can accommodate for any 'illegitimate' bot usage and server strain.
what is the projected strain on resources?ĪrXiv is run by a singular entity on their own hosting, so any expenses and overheads to allow for increased traffic by allowing guests to download content is covered by Cornell, which for the 2017-2018 fiscal year saw a $10.5 b illion net in assets. There are lot of variables that determine a decision like this, but generally speaking these are the main ones: