Yeah but that can't be for bandwidth for Maddox. Bandwidth, even back then, couldn't have been that high for a text-based, sparse images website. I wouldn't doubt that he was paying that to a professional hosting company that 'managed' his content as that was fairly common back then. They likely tossed it on a dedicated server that they colocated to a datacenter and charged him exorbitant prices to manage all of that and update his website for him.

Back then I can tell you, you could get unmetered with a 10mbps port plus peering (~3.24TB/month theoretical or ~2.65TB/mo @ 80%) for $100 to $200 a month (not including rackspace), depending on datacenter and peering (there was actually cheaper options but the geography and peering options weren't that great). With a decent dedicated server, you could probably spend around $150 - $300/month for that plus $10 to $50/mo for a decent web control panel license (like cpanel or DirectAdmin) back then.

Typical 'Enterprise' shared hosting plans then for a couple of TB of data transfer per month would have been about $30/mo. 'Enterprise' shared hosting usually meant only a few customers per server. Regular shared hosting was normally very oversold (vs. actual resources available) but much cheaper.

Examples:

Liquid Web circa 2006 - a respected WebHost offered a dedicated server with 1.6 TB/mo for $144/mo

A2 Hosting circa 2006 - a non-so-respected but popular provider had dedicated server hosting with 1 TB/mo for $290/mo

Hostgator circa 2006 - lower of the pack in reputation at the time but using a datacenter with a good reputation (ThePlanet) had similar pricing to A2.

By 2008 bandwidth gets cheaper and for about the same price, you'd get 4 TB/mo. including a decent dedicated server.

For reference, one of Maddox's...blog entries in 2005 was about 210KB including images. At 10,000 full hits per day on it, it would be about 63 GB/mo. assuming he wasn't using something like the popular gzip compression module for Apache or similar back then. At around 3 million hits per month, it would be around 0.6 TB/mo.