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OVH 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 user
by zzzcpan 10y ago
OVH 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.