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>averaging 4 gigabits 24x7 is not going to be cheap anywhere A normal upstream (if you were in a colo or some sort of DC) will charge you about $0.50 per meg.

>averaging 4 gigabits 24x7 is not going to be cheap anywhere A normal upstream (if you were in a colo or some sort of DC) will charge you about $0.50 per meg. So, 4gbps would cost you... $200/mo. [1] I think people don't realize just how much more expensive IaaS providers are. We're literally talking orders of magnitude. [1] https://blog.telegeography.com/outlook-for-ip-transit-prices-in-2018 https://blog.telegeography.com/outlook-for-ip-transit-prices...

reitzensteinm 7y ago
$2000, it seems like you dropped a zero. And you're presumably going to need some burst capacity, so call it $4k for a 2:1 ratio if you care about not throttling at peak times. The big cloud providers are very expensive, but you're getting impeccable bandwidth. Low packet loss, burst what you want even in peak times, fast transit worldwide, minimal variability. What most people actually don't realize is that they're making that tradeoff implicitly. You're not being ripped off if you need all of these things, but if it's overkill you can get much cheaper bandwidth elsewhere.