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Yes Digital Ocean / Linode bandwidth is 40x cheaper than AWS. Amazon also charges extra for a support plan so you can open a ticket, and inform them of their b

Yes Digital Ocean / Linode bandwidth is 40x cheaper than AWS. Amazon also charges extra for a support plan so you can open a ticket, and inform them of their bugs. And we have found bugs in AWS infrastructure that still remains unfixed, because we have a disproportionate amount of IE users. They essentially forced us to stand up a linode proxy infront of s3 & create our own CDN, since theirs did not work for our users. In the process we saved 4,000% on our bandwidth.

kingbirdy 9y ago
how could you save more than 100%?
- tomcam 9y ago
  Reluctantly upvoted because while I am trying desperately to cut down on my own snarkiness, I deeply value precision in language
- thehardsphere 9y ago
  Maybe bandwidth went up in the same period the price went down? Just a guess.
- joshribakoff 9y ago
  What I should have said is its 40x cheaper. But I guess if you factor in not losing customers due to obscure IE problems on AWS, we could have saved over 100% ;) by not losing customers. Some businesses don't need to worry about obscure IE problems, and AWS will make sense, for us it didn't.
EGreg 9y ago
When you say bandwidth, what are you referring to specifically? The biggest reason Linode didn't make sense for us is that we couldn't scale hard drive space without scaling everything else, too. As the site grew this became pretty crazy.
- jlgaddis 9y ago
  "data transfer out", presumably, based on the context.
- stephenr 9y ago
  The "locked tiers" model shits me to tears. I've managed to find a good Xen based vps/dedi host that let you customise memory/disk independently (but regular vps are all "just" 2 vcpus I believe).
- joshribakoff 9y ago
  What I mean specifically is cost of data transfer/bandwidth is cheaper on Linode. If you're pushing 10s or 100s of TB a month its a big deal. You can still run your own CDN on linode & use amazon s3 as an origin server.
stephenr 9y ago
> bandwidth How does this industry manage to fuck up usage of very specific technical terms so often. Bandwidth is the speed. The hint is in the name. Wider means more at once. You're almost certainly talking about the amount of data transfered. The most depressing part is seeing hosting companies use the same incorrect terminology.
- joshribakoff 9y ago
  Comparing 1gbps of bandwidth on AWS and 1gbps of bandwidth on linode, linode is 40x cheaper. Its a measure of bandwidth usage over time, or data transfer. Its the same thing in the context I used it in, which is the industry standard term. If I were comparing cost of bursting, the semantics would be worth arguing.

kingbirdy 9y ago

how could you save more than 100%?

tomcam 9y ago
Reluctantly upvoted because while I am trying desperately to cut down on my own snarkiness, I deeply value precision in language
thehardsphere 9y ago
Maybe bandwidth went up in the same period the price went down? Just a guess.
joshribakoff 9y ago
What I should have said is its 40x cheaper. But I guess if you factor in not losing customers due to obscure IE problems on AWS, we could have saved over 100% ;) by not losing customers. Some businesses don't need to worry about obscure IE problems, and AWS will make sense, for us it didn't.

EGreg 9y ago

When you say bandwidth, what are you referring to specifically? The biggest reason Linode didn't make sense for us is that we couldn't scale hard drive space without scaling everything else, too. As the site grew this became pretty crazy.

jlgaddis 9y ago
"data transfer out", presumably, based on the context.
stephenr 9y ago
The "locked tiers" model shits me to tears. I've managed to find a good Xen based vps/dedi host that let you customise memory/disk independently (but regular vps are all "just" 2 vcpus I believe).
joshribakoff 9y ago
What I mean specifically is cost of data transfer/bandwidth is cheaper on Linode. If you're pushing 10s or 100s of TB a month its a big deal. You can still run your own CDN on linode & use amazon s3 as an origin server.

stephenr 9y ago

> bandwidth How does this industry manage to fuck up usage of very specific technical terms so often. Bandwidth is the speed. The hint is in the name. Wider means more at once. You're almost certainly talking about the amount of data transfered. The most depressing part is seeing hosting companies use the same incorrect terminology.

joshribakoff 9y ago
Comparing 1gbps of bandwidth on AWS and 1gbps of bandwidth on linode, linode is 40x cheaper. Its a measure of bandwidth usage over time, or data transfer. Its the same thing in the context I used it in, which is the industry standard term. If I were comparing cost of bursting, the semantics would be worth arguing.