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At our highest egress tier, our CDN offering around GCE (or GCS in Alpha), starts being competitive [1]. I agree though that if you just want some bandwidth, no

by boulos 10y ago

At our highest egress tier, our CDN offering around GCE (or GCS in Alpha), starts being competitive [1]. I agree though that if you just want some bandwidth, no major public cloud provider comes close to the kind of transit rates you'll find for "this isn't VOIP or gaming...". How much egress does Neocities do a month? Feel free to ping me if you'd prefer to discuss offline. Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud. [1] https://cloud.google.com/cdn/pricing#cache_egress_pricing_table https://cloud.google.com/cdn/pricing#cache_egress_pricing_ta...

kyledrake 10y ago
$0.02 for North America is a rate where I start to go "okay, that could make sense" for entry level. I would call it priced right if it was extremely high quality bandwidth, as in you made some good peering arrangements with the eyeball ISPs and had some strong low-saturation IP transit in the mix. You would have to convince me of it's quality. My traceroutes should show a lot of direct regional peering to the major ISPs and Level 3 caliber transit. I really think you could differentiate a from your competition hugely by just using that $0.02/GB point for all your customers, regardless of the amount of egress they're using. It's a big chicken-and-egg problem to have those bandwidth costs initially as a startup, but then be able to handle them as a bigger organization. It made us move to our own infrastructure, and once we're here, I already have my infrastructure in a datacenter at that point, so why bother with the cloud? Even better (for me anyways) would be to provide an option for the "this isn't VOIP or gaming" bandwidth. Not everybody needs that. Actually, probably most people don't. For what I would use GCS for I only need transit to other datacenters. That bandwidth is much cheaper than major ISP peering bandwidth because there aren't monopolies like Comcast extorting everybody for peering.

by boulos 10y ago

kyledrake 10y ago

$0.02 for North America is a rate where I start to go "okay, that could make sense" for entry level. I would call it priced right if it was extremely high quality bandwidth, as in you made some good peering arrangements with the eyeball ISPs and had some strong low-saturation IP transit in the mix. You would have to convince me of it's quality. My traceroutes should show a lot of direct regional peering to the major ISPs and Level 3 caliber transit. I really think you could differentiate a from your competition hugely by just using that $0.02/GB point for all your customers, regardless of the amount of egress they're using. It's a big chicken-and-egg problem to have those bandwidth costs initially as a startup, but then be able to handle them as a bigger organization. It made us move to our own infrastructure, and once we're here, I already have my infrastructure in a datacenter at that point, so why bother with the cloud? Even better (for me anyways) would be to provide an option for the "this isn't VOIP or gaming" bandwidth. Not everybody needs that. Actually, probably most people don't. For what I would use GCS for I only need transit to other datacenters. That bandwidth is much cheaper than major ISP peering bandwidth because there aren't monopolies like Comcast extorting everybody for peering.