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If you care about cost you can get away with only a couple of locations, totaling maybe slightly over $100 monthly.
by zzzcpan 10y ago
If you care about cost you can get away with only a couple of locations, totaling maybe slightly over $100 monthly.
- tyingq 10y agoI don't see 70TB of outbound bandwidth fitting into $100/month. Even with unmetered bandwidth servers, you would need quite a few of them. 100Mbps, full throttle, for a month, is less than half their 70TB/month requirement. And that's if the bandwidth needs were even across the whole day, without spikes. Even a bare bones budget setup is going to be $300-$400/month, and that's cutting it very close and providing crap service with some users downloading from across the globe.
- zzzcpan 10y agoOVH or Online.net alone can get you that much bandwidth with a dedicated server and for less money. Use one to serve US users and the other one to serve EU users. CDNs are not a zero-sum game, you will always have users downloading "from across the globe" or over slow connections.
- tyingq 10y agoI'm assuming a budget provider like OVH or online.net to get to the $300-$400 a month already. I suppose, yes, you could instruct users to pick from a North American or EU set of urls.
- zzzcpan 10y ago"I suppose, yes, you could instruct users to pick from a North American or EU set of urls." No, you instruct your DNS to point to one location for EU users and another location for US users, urls don't change.
- lrem 10y agoHave you seen Cloudflare map? 100 locations across all inhabited continents, even Africa gets a few...
- jgrahamc 10y agoAnd growing... we want to be 10ms from the entire online population.