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Are you ever going to be competitive with transit? I can buy gigabit from a number of providers for $400/month, which saturated the entire time is 330TB or $0.0
by Veratyr 9y ago
Are you ever going to be competitive with transit? I can buy gigabit from a number of providers for $400/month, which saturated the entire time is 330TB or $0.0013/GB. I can also see 10Gbps for $999, which is $0.00030/GB.
There are so many things I'd love to use Compute Engine for but storage is obscenely expensive for my needs and egress pricing makes it impossible to get data out after I send it in.
- ucombinator 9y agoAlthough the difference isn't as big as you think: when you buy from an ISP, you typically pay for a router (and space/power to host it), a $250/mo cross-connect fee, two ports if you want reliability, and you have a >2x unit price increase just from running a port at <50% average utilization. But yeah, it's still cheaper if you have >1Gbps of traffic.