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But the $19.95 linodes have a 200GB/month limit - so you'd need at an absolute minimum of 4 to do 800GB/month, and given you won't have perfect geographical spr
by adamt 16y ago
But the $19.95 linodes have a 200GB/month limit - so you'd need at an absolute minimum of 4 to do 800GB/month, and given you won't have perfect geographical spread, about 6-8 is perhaps more realistic. So you'd be looking at least $120 for the VPS, plus the time/hassle of setting this up and managing/monitoring it.
So it's just as expensive, and there's no way the DIY model would be cheaper in terms of TCO.
- buro9 16y agoI already host with Linode and they pool the bandwidth allowance for all Linodes in your account. As I've already got nicely layered VMs some have a totally unused allowance. For example my MySQL nodes only transfer traffic on the private network at Linode and so both the master server and slave use virtually zilch of their bandwidth allowance. I'm fairly sure that most Linode users with more than 1 node will be using only a fraction of their allowance. My total pooled bandwidth allowance with Linode is close to 4TB, of which in total I'm using only 1TB with 800GB being static content. My point was simple: The DIY solution with Linode looks to be a really good idea as I already am with them and placing CDN servers in other datacenters should mean good routing internally within their network (or peers) as well as being extremely cheap. I have yet to be shown that for my scenario there is a cheaper option and that this is solved. I am very happy to be proven wrong as it will save me some work, but so far DIY is winning.