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> Well, you're obviously costing them money. AWS and Google Cloud want people to think that, so that they can keep selling people McDonalds and charging Michel
by kyledrake 10y ago
> Well, you're obviously costing them money.
AWS and Google Cloud want people to think that, so that they can keep selling people McDonalds and charging Michelin prices for it.
Market-rate quality bandwidth is closer to $0.005-$0.015/GB. That's with peering to eyeball ISPs like Comcast and everything. Don't believe me, go to Voxility and crunch the numbers yourself.
Their marketing guys say about it what they're going to say. But under the hood, you tell me if you're getting something different:
http://bgp.he.net/AS20473#_asinfo http://bgp.he.net/AS20473#_asinfo
http://bgp.he.net/AS16509#_asinfo http://bgp.he.net/AS16509#_asinfo
http://bgp.he.net/AS63949#_asinfo http://bgp.he.net/AS63949#_asinfo
Oh BTW, DigitalOcean's site just resolves to a Cloudflare controlled IP. If they can't successfully run their own servers on their own network, I won't either. You can have a different opinion here, but that's mine. I like to see my ISPs eating their own dog food.
- simplehuman 10y agoDO DNS is also powered by cloudflare
- tbrowbdidnso 10y agoIf I remember right cloudflare outsources theit DNS to someone else as well, can't remember who
- homero 10y agoNo they take outsourcing
- manigandham 10y agoCloudflare's entire business is running their own edge network which combines DNS + CDN + WAF + DDOS protection. They don't outsource this.
- hyperpape 10y agoAt $.005/GB, 20TB is still $100. That said, they are a business, and it's their job to make their bandwidth policies clear and enforce them. Either they're ok with a few users using tons of bandwidth or they can't be bothered to put in place a clear policy. Either way, it's not the user's problem.
- corobo 10y agoHow much bandwidth do you provide? What is the transfer limit? Your server comes with between 200Mbit/s and 800Mbit/s of internet bandwidth depending of your server. Checkout the pricing page to find the exact value. The internal bandwidth is only limited by the speed of your network card. There is no transfer limit, transfer is unlimited. https://www.scaleway.com/faq/server/network/ https://www.scaleway.com/faq/server/network/ That's the bandwidth policy. I've never had them crack down on me using the bandwidth I'm paying for, never heard anyone else say they've had a problem either
- corobo 10y ago> I like to see my ISPs eating their own dog food. I have to disagree in part here - No matter what is going on with the ISPs networking etc I want to be able to see status updates. Hosting off-network is great for this. In DigitalOcean's case they can of course use multiple of their own regions I suppose, but if Cloudflare does the job the box is ticked for me
- closeparen 10y agoI don't like to see my ISPs eating their own dog food, because I like my ISPs to be capable of communicating during outages.
- kyledrake 10y agoI don't care if their status page is off-network, I care if their main web site is. Isn't that just obvious?