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Ask HN: What would you do with massive, cheap incoming bandwidth?
I work for a site that uses a terrifyingly huge amount of outgoing bandwidth. The thing is, bandwidth purchased at this scale is symmetrical, so we are only using 1% of the incoming bandwidth that we have access to.
If someone has a great business idea for how to take advantage of that inexpensive incoming bandwidth (remote backups?) this could be a decent opportunity. Could be a new or existing business.
For the record I'm not actually in a position to make business deals but I can certainly get the right people in touch.
- atomical 16y agoIt's not uncommon. Datacenters will make deals with their customers. I ran a spider for some time off a 100 megabit connection. It was a shared connection which made it dirt cheap and they had a lot of spare incoming and it didn't bother them if I used it 24/7.
- jiaaro 16y agohow about datamining services? lots of data goes in, only aggregated data goes out (much smaller)
- byoung2 16y agoIsn't incoming bandwidth usually very cheap anyway? The problem is that you have to either store it or transfer it back out, which are both more expensive.
- wanderr 16y agoIt would make sense if it is, I imagine most services have an excess of incoming bandwidth for the same reason we do, we just have even more of it as a % because we serve bigger files. But yeah I have no idea what pricing for incoming bandwidth typically would be...