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I thought it was strange that the free network egress excluded Australia. I can understand why they might charge more for China, but Australia? Then I found t
by shthed 10y ago
I thought it was strange that the free network egress excluded Australia. I can understand why they might charge more for China, but Australia?
Then I found this article (written 3 years ago):
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-around-the-world/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...
Bandwidth to Australia cost 20x that of EU or US because of Telstra :(
Good news though, Google are planning a Compute Engine zone in Sydney this year :)
- Veratyr 10y agoI'm curious whether this'll change when the NBN is more prominent. Does anyone know what their peering policy is/will be? I had a look around but couldn't find anything.