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I run https://wtfismyip.com https://wtfismyip.com on OVH. Egress bandwidth exceeds 8TB a month, which on AWS could cost ~$1000/month, not including the cost of
by QUFB 9y ago
I run https://wtfismyip.com https://wtfismyip.com on OVH. Egress bandwidth exceeds 8TB a month, which on AWS could cost ~$1000/month, not including the cost of the beefy EC2 instance I would need.
For some bandwidth heavy use cases, OVH makes a lot more sense than AWS. In my case it was $150/month versus $2000/month (bandwidth + EC2).
- beamatronic 9y agoIt’s plain text, how do you get to 8TB per month! Congrats on your site!
- QUFB 9y ago2M hits per hour, 1M uniques. It's crazy!
- eh78ssxv2f 9y agoWhy no gzip/brotli the content? Does it not help because html is small?
- zorked 9y agoI'm guessing it's mostly automated. Are you being used by a popular software package that you know of?
- ehsankia 9y agoI wouldn't be surprised if the plain-text ip was used somewhere. Anecdotal evidence but I myself use that for most of my scripts to get my own ip. A github search shows over 1000 code results.
- djhworld 9y agoAre you able to at least break even in terms of costs?
- api 9y agoWe run a chunk on OVH too. It is over 100X cheaper than AWS. We have had some issues though. OVH had two major outages in the last two years. Our strategy has been to build a more robust distributed architecture and use these issues to be "antifragile," which improves our product while as still saving money. Over time I expect OVH to become more solid as they mature.
- oblio 9y agoIt seens OVH was launched in 1999. That’s quite a long time for them to mature :)
- lossolo 9y agoFrom what I remember one of those outages wasn't connected with network hardware/their architecture but with their new electricity feed system, after which they posted post mortem and wrote about steps that they will take so this will not happen again. Every major platform had outages in the last 2 years - Amazon many times, google cloud also.
- z3t4 9y agoYou should get some boxes from other EU vendors as well. Don't put all your eggs in the same basket. Unless your work load is very unpredictable I don't see why people use AWS, "serverless" and platform lockin.
- rifung 9y agoI thought people go with serverless so they don't have to deal with ops?
- tedivm 9y agoAWS bandwidth costs are obscene. They compete on price so well on most other fronts, but for some reason they just completely overcharge on bandwidth. It makes using them without a CDN cost prohibitive and drives a lot of use cases away from them.
- KaoruAoiShiho 9y agoWhat's the best cdn right now? Cloudfront is just expensive as hell.
- edaemon 9y agoIn terms of price I still haven't found anything better than CloudFlare. If performance is the goal all the testing I've done for work shows Akamai as the leader, though not by a lot. Fastly is making strides to compete with both, as well.
- eric_b 9y agoI would have said MaxCDN, but they recently got "acquired" by StackPath, so who knows what direction that's going.
- mprev 9y agoWhy the quote marks around acquired?
- eric_b 9y agoStackPath came out of nowhere. As far as I could tell at the time, they didn't have any public products. And all of a sudden they bought MaxCDN. I could never tell if it was actually an acquisition or more of a merger or something else?
- manigandham 9y agoStackpath is from the founder of Softlayer. Raised private equity money and acquired several companies including MaxCDN to start a new service. The subbrands still exist but are slowly migrating and will refer you to the stackpath products. https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/25/security-as-a-service-startup-stackpath-nabs-180m-4-acquisitions-including-maxcdn/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/25/security-as-a-service-star...
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- fwdpropaganda 9y agoCare to explain what the business model is here?
- opencl 9y agohttps://wtfismyip.com/why https://wtfismyip.com/why There is literally an entire page explaining that there is no business model other than a donation button. There are shockingly people than run websites either as a hobby or to provide a useful service for others with no expectation of making money from it.
- paxys 9y agoBrowsed the entire website but can't figure out how to donate. There's no link anywhere, even on the Twitter page.
- Sukram21 9y agoWhen you look at https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z2wGshBNVLoJ:https://wtfismyip.com/why+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z2wGsh... (Google Webcache from 25th March), there was a donation button on the "Why" page, but it seems to have been removed now. Not sure why though...
- AlexCoventry 9y ago$150/month seems like a lot for a hobby like this.
- flas9sd 9y agojust curious - any particular reason to not enable gzip compression for responses?
- gaius 9y ago$ curl -s https://wtfismyip.com/text|wc -c 16 $ curl -s https://wtfismyip.com/text|gzip -|wc -c 36
- flas9sd 9y agonginx for example can enable gzip by content-type or depending on gzip_min_length, it's very flexible. All in all, just curious if there's a deeper reason.
- e12e 9y agoSo..8tb vs 4tb? If paying for bw.. Seems reasonable?
- Widdershin 9y agoThe gzip version is actually the larger of the two.
- e12e 9y agoIndeed. Missed it because of required side-scrolling on mobile.
- mst 9y agoI wonder if nearlyfreespeech would be even cheaper for you.
- Andrex 9y agoI've used NFS for more than 10 years. Past a certain point, it does not scale. It's really good for smaller sites and not much else I feel.
- fibers 9y agoThank you for your service, sir!
- m3adow 9y agoI just wanted to thank you. I've used your site so many times in personal scripts.