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Even at Amazon's cheapest posted bandwidth tier you're paying $50+ per terabyte for bandwidth. Any dedicated hosting company (OVH, Hetzner, etc...) will cost l
by sgk284 10y ago
Even at Amazon's cheapest posted bandwidth tier you're paying $50+ per terabyte for bandwidth.
Any dedicated hosting company (OVH, Hetzner, etc...) will cost less than 3% of that (and that's on the high end).
Bandwidth is cheap, but AWS marks it up roughly 30x-50x what you'd pay in a dedicated environment.
- MasterScrat 10y agoThen why isn't anyone running an AWS-like service focused for bandwidth-intensive applications hosted on "OVH, Hetzner, etc..."?
- amazon_not 10y agoIt depends on how you define AWS-like services. Lots of VPS providers cater to bandwidth-intensive applications and are hosted on cheap dedicated servers.
- sgk284 10y agoMany people do. S3 is convenient though. It handles durability, replication, uptime, etc... and even with the insane markup on bandwidth many startups / companies can afford a $10k/mo bandwidth bill because it's cheaper than hiring some devops and a team to build out the appropriate infrastructure.
- creshal 10y agoThat's what I meant with "really cheaper". Sure, bandwidth costs are lower with Hetzner, but that's not everything.
- vegardx 10y agoBut you don't have to store and serve all the content from Amazon or your own platform. You can easily set up aggressive caching, in a network you control, backed by S3. And you pay premium for premium bandwidth. You can't just assume that all your users will have a good experience if you buy hardware and bandwidth from the cheapest providers around.
- amazon_not 10y agoAmazon bandwidth isn't particularly premium. It's just expensive.