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What always strikes me is the amount of free traffic Hetzner includes in their plans, always 20TB and upwards. AWS charges a whooping 90$ per TB, it keeps me w
by stemuk 10y ago
What always strikes me is the amount of free traffic Hetzner includes in their plans, always 20TB and upwards.
AWS charges a whooping 90$ per TB, it keeps me wondering why their traffic is SO much more expensive than Hetzner's...
- corobo 10y agoCan you actually use that traffic though? I can run AWS bandwidth at max for the entire month and (assuming I'm not spamming or whatever) I just get a bigger bill. With places like Hetzner you may be shut down for abusing their services if you use that limit too frequently.
- Medowar 10y agonah, wrong. If you go over the allowed bandwith, you can get either limited to 10Mbit/s or pay 1,37€ per TB. In comparison, this is pretty cheap, but that is about waht you pay, when you buy transit. Source: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en
- Medowar 10y agocorrection, 1,17€/TB
- kuschku 10y agoSimple, Hetzner directly buys at transit wholesale prices.
- jlgaddis 10y agoAmazon peers extensively, so they don't even pay for (most of) the traffic! (Not on a recurring basis anyways -- yes, there's the one-time capital costs and such.)
- toast0 10y agoPeering has recurring costs too, it's just not going to the other peer (generally), the recurring costs are for things like space at the exchange, exchange fees for dedicated circuits to the peer, etc.
- jlgaddis 10y agoI've never understood why AWS charges so much for network traffic, especially considering their connectivity and peering.